"Blasphemy is a Victimless Crime."

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Source : Twitter post from Aug 28, 2013

Richard Dawkins

#Crime Quotes #Blasphemy Quotes

“I write a lot, and very often I write a couple of lines that are particularly revealing in some kind of way. And then as a few more lines get added and a piece gets added, eventually the song pretty much takes over and you can't really find a way to change those things.”
“The contradictory, consuming, contested relationship between detail and whole, event an eventuality, breathes fire and wisdom in every great work of art.”
“A library is an adjustable wrench for opening the head.”
“Death is sad, yes, but there are some great laughs you can find there.”
“There are a lot of things that you don't realize that your parents are going through when you're a kid.”
“Queen Guenever, for whom I make here a little mention, that while she lived she was a true lover, and therefore she had a good end.”

Source : 'Le Morte D'Arthur' (1485) bk. 18, ch. 25
“As a revolutionary people, we Americans won a probable victory over the best and biggest army in the world because we learned to fight from the Indians. You can do a lot of damage with a Kentucky rifle from behind a tree. You don't put on a peaked hat and a red coat and white leggings and crossed white bandoleers with a big silver buckle in the center of the X and march uphill into a line of Howitzers loaded with chain and chopped horseshoes.”
“Our imagination is struck only by what is great; but the lover of natural philosophy should reflect equally on little things.”

Source : Alexander von HUMBOLDT (1869). “Personal narrative of travels to the equinoctial regions of America”, p.288

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