"I am not afraid of the priests in the long-run. Scientific method is the white ant which will slowly but surely destroy their fortifications. And the importance of scientific method in modern practical life--always growing and increasing--is the guarantee for the gradual emancipation of the ignorant upper and lower classes, the former of whom especially are the strength of the priests."

-- Thomas Huxley

#Running Quotes #Class Quotes #White Quotes

“I'm really proud to be Filipino. Filipinos are really supportive, and I want to thank all of them. I love them!”

Source : "Charice: The next Celine Dion?" by Shanon Cook, www.cnn.com. May 19, 2010.
“Regular crises perpetuate the past by reinvigorating cycles which started long ago. In contrast, (capital-C) Crises are the past's death knell. They function like laboratories in which the future is incubated. They have given us agriculture and the industrial revolution, technology and the labour contract, killer germs and antibiotics. Once they strike, the past ceases to be a reliable predictor of the future and a brave new world is born.”

Source : Yanis Varoufakis (2015). “The Global Minotaur: America, Europe and the Future of the Global Economy”, p.43, Zed Books Ltd.
“I used to have two double espressos a day. I gave that up, had headaches for five days but now I'm feeling great.”
“We are people with lives, not consumers with lifestyles.”
“I remember reading about the astounding number of people in this country who die within three years of retiring, which proves to me that if you lose the sense that you are producing or contributing in some way, you literally lose the will to live, and that if you do have a reason to hang on, you will.”
“Always stay true to yourself. Some people will like it, some people won't. Life goes on.”

Source : Twitter post from Oct 14, 2011
“I know well that when Christ is nearest, Satan also is busiest.”
“Whoever I am, or whatever I am doing, some kind of excellence is within my reach.”

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