"Where there is no belief, there is no blasphemy."

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Salman Rushdie

#Belief Quotes #Blasphemy Quotes

“When I stop at a stop sign, I donâ€™t think about the distance Iâ€™ve crossed. I just wish I never had to stop.”
“Resilience is a precious skill. People who have it tend to also have three underlying advantages: a believe that they can influence life events; a tendency to find meaningful purpose in lifeâ€™s turmoil; and a conviction that they can learn from both positive and negative experiences.”
“The habit of the religious way of thinking has biased our mind so grievously that we are - terrified at ourselves in our nakedness and naturalness; it has degraded us so that we deem ourselves depraved by nature, born devils.”

Source : Max Stirner, James J. Martin, Steven T. Byington (2005). “The Ego and His Own: The Case of the Individual Against Authority”, p.162, Courier Corporation
“It's like doctors can't save all their patients, but, on balance, Bain under Gov. Romney created well over 100,000 jobs, which is certainly more than has been created in the Obama administration because we're down over 500,000 over the last three-and-a-half years.”

Source : "The Bain Debate: How Much Will Voters Care About Romney's Role?". "PBS NewsHour" with Judy Woodruff, www.pbs.org. May 21, 2012.
“We only really learn in conversation after sex.”
“Everybody looks at their poop.”
“I know what it's like to want to die. How it hurts to smile. How you try to fit in but you can't. How you hurt yourself on the outside to try to kill the thing on the inside.”

Source : "Girl, Interrupted". www.imdb.com. 1999.
“Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.”

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