"In the past, when people criticized me for asking unexpected questions, I felt ashamed. Now I realize that normal people are acting in a superficial and often false manner. So rather than let them make me feel bad, I express my annoyance. It's my way of trying to strike a blow for logic and rationality."

-- John Elder Robison

#Past Quotes #Blow Quotes #People Quotes

“I have seen flowers come in stony places And kind things done by men with ugly faces, And the gold cup won by the worst horse at the races, So I trust, too.”

Source : John Masefield, Peter Vansittart (1984). “John Masefield's letters from the front, 1915-1917”, Constable & Company Limited
“I don't write quickly, and I don't want to.”
“For how shall we fill people with blind faith in the correctness of a doctrine, if we ourselves spread uncertainty and doubt by constant changes in its outward structure? ...Here, too, we can learn by the example of the Catholic Church. Though its doctrinal edifice, and in part quite superfluously, comes into collision with exact science and research, it is none the less unwilling to sacrifice so much as one little syllable of its dogmas... it is only such dogmas which lend to the whole body the character of a faith.”
“When we are returned to power we want to put in the statute book an act which will make our people citizens of the world before they are citizens of this country.”

Source : "The Labour Party in Perspective" by Clement Attlee, Left Book Club, 1937.
“When a guy takes off his coat, he's not going to fight. When a guy takes off his wristwatch, watch out!”
“It's not about size, it's a science.”
“Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of the definition of a marriage as between one man and one woman.”
“Beyond all experience is the one who is experiencing. Beyond all change is the One who never changes.”

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