"Dependence is a perpetual call upon humanity, and a greater incitement to tenderness and pity than any other motive whatever."

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Joseph Addison

#Humanity Quotes #Pity Quotes #Incitement Quotes

“Our everyday, traditional ideas of reality are delusions which we spend substantial parts of our daily lives shoring up, even at the considerable risk of trying to force facts to fit our definition of reality instead of vice versa. And the most dangerous delusion of all is that there is only one reality.”

Source : "How real is real?: Confusion, disinformation, communication".
“People value Halloween, like Valentine's Day, because they can tell themselves that it's not merely secularized but actually secular, which is to say, not Christian, Jewish, Hindu or Muslim.”
“I find it greatly disturbing that the Bush administration has used political and religious ideologies to influence national policy on science and medicine.”
“Ammunition beats persuasion when you are looking for freedom.”
“Once when I was working for the Daily News, I was summoned back to work from vacation because Donald Trump announced he was getting a divorce.”
“What sort of man is this, who over and over again, gave numerous details about His death, months before it occurred, and added to each such utterance that on the third day after His decease He would rise again from the dead - and DID RISE, as even the city of Jerusalem soon came to believe? No other founder of a great world religion (or a small one) ever made such statements, or ever came forth from the dead.”
“Analysis does not take into account the creative products of neurotic desires.”
“Mathematics is as much an aspect of culture as it is a collection of algorithms.”

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