"The essence of Christianity, as I see it, is love. The essence of Humanism (and I'm also a Humanist) is love. At that level, we're not far apart."

-- Mark Thomas

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“I'm a Christian woman, but I believe in human rights,”
“If you cannot stand a spoon upright in the cup, then the coffee is too weak.”

Source : Lawrence Block (2001). “The Thief who Couldn't Sleep”, Center Point Pub
“The main goal is to increase diversity. The one thing that is bad for society is low diversity. This is true for culture or evolution, for species and also for whole societies. If you become a monoculture, you are at great risk of perishing.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“The idea that motherhood is inherently somehow a threat to creativity is just absurd.”
“As black folks we're always sensitive. As a black person it's always racial.”
“Business men are to be pitied who do not recognize the fact that the largest side of their secular business is benevolence. ... No man ever manages a legitimate business in this life without doing indirectly far more for other men than he is trying to do for himself.”
“I've dubbed myself as an amateur, not because I work in different field, but because I do what I do for love.”

Source : "Billy Childish Talks Van Gogh And His Definition Of The Word 'Amateur'” by Susan Michals, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 13, 2011.
“And there's a wonderful parable in the New Testament: The sower scatters seeds. Some seeds fall in the pathway and get stamped on, and they don't grow. Some fall on the rocks, and they don't grow. But some seeds fall on fallow ground, and they grow and multiply a thousandfold. Who knows where some good little thing that you've done may bring results years later that you never dreamed of?”

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