"The scent of frying astronomers long ago ceased to ascend to Yahweh."

-- H. L. Mencken

#Long Quotes #Atheism Quotes #Yahweh Quotes

“The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image.”
“No it was not the novelty, and it was not the danger and the adventure (although these had their charm). It was certainly not a passing whim (if it had been the hard work would have dispelled it in a very short time!). I think there were three chief reasons for my choice of career: First, a real love for, and interest in aviation Secondly, a determination to earn my own money and to make my career a paying proposition. Thirdly, a conviction that aviation was a profession of the future and therefore had room to welcome its new followers.”
“What a glut of books! Who can read them?”

Source : Robert Burton (1955). “The Anatomy of Melancholy: Now for the First Time with the Latin Completely Given in Translation and Embodied in an All-English Text”
“Maybe nothing's so unfunny as an omen read wrong.”

Source : Michael Herr (2011). “Dispatches”, p.47, Vintage
“I am not teaching you anything. I just help you to explore yourself.”
“Amiability is very often a weakness, but the most unobjectionable one as a rule.”
“I think that you get something for your acting from almost anything you do.”
“I donâ€™t think youâ€™re aloud to be homeschooled if you donâ€™t have a home.”

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