"Piety sometimes gives birth to scruples, and faith to superstition, when they are not directed by wisdom and knowledge."

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Lord Acton

#Giving Quotes #Superstitions Quotes #Birth Quotes

“What peaceful hours I once enjoy'd! How sweet their memory still! But they have left an aching void The world can never fill.”
“The road from the eye to the heart is easy to follow. I am taking it with my eyes closed.”
“We all love the environment, but we have placed creatures above people. A rat is a rat.”

Source : "Sonny Bono Killed In Skiing Accident", www.cnn.com. January 6, 1998.
“Marriage is supposed to be permanent. It's like a tattoo that yells at you.”
“A miracle is when the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. A miracle is when one plus one equals a thousand.”
“I have stage combat training from college, which is drastically different than fighting for the screen, but I do enjoy that kind of stuff.”

Source : "Sonequa Martin-Green (Sasha)". Interview with Brian Fegter, www.amc.com.
“One loving thought can change everything.”
“Those who live in the country get idiotic in time, without noticing it, for a while they think it's original and good for their health, but life in the country is not original at all, for anyone who wasn't born in and for the country it shows a lack of taste and is only harmful to their health. The people who go walking in the country walk right into their own funeral in the country and at the very least they lead a grotesque existence which leads them first into idiocy, then into an absurd death.”

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