"The inhabitants of the earth are of two sorts: those with brains, but no religion, and those with religion, but no brains."

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Source : "The Crusades Through Arab Eyes". Essay by Amin Maalouf, 1984.

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#Two Quotes #Brain Quotes #Earth Quotes

“Remember one thing about democracy. We can have anything we want and at the same time, we always end up with exactly what we deserve.”

Source : "Unleashing Intellectual Capital". Book by Charles Ehin, 2000.
“He has systematically violated, over the course of the past 11 years, every significant UN resolution that has demanded that he disarm and destroy his chemical and biological weapons, and any nuclear capacity. This he has refused to do.”
“You need to be surrounded by good advisers, but you also need to trust your instinct.”
“In my experience, being busy and working hard is the key to sanity/happiness.”
“Whatever thought grips the mind at the time of death is the one which will propel it and decide for it the nature of its future birth. Thus if one wants to attain god after death, one has to think of him steadfastly... This is not as simple as it sounds, for at the time of death the mind automatically flies to the thought of an object (i.e. money, love) which has possessed it during its sojourn in the world. Thus one must think of god constantly.”
“It's probably a bit of a power trip when you befriend somebody enough that they trust you to tell you things.”

Source : "Josh Brolin can't be broken" by Phoebe Eaton, www.today.com. November 8, 2007.
“Centralized sounds good ... but the reality is that the National Guard and Army don't have the kind of ties with local organizations that ultimately deliver lots of service, your nonprofits, churches, humanitarian organizations. Those types of linkages get built up over time, in local communities.”
“I told a lie the other day. I said that I'd caught a 'bunch' of trout. What I should have said is that I caught a little trout that I named Bunch. There, I?ve confessed and now I feel much better.”

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