"Some people say that without God, people would give themselves permission to do anything. [Yet] only with God, only with the view that God's on your side, can people give themselves permission to do things that otherwise would be called satanic."

-- Christopher Hitchens

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“Erudition without pedantry is as a rare as wisdom itself.”

Source : George Sarton (1964). “A History of Science: Ancient Science Through the Golden Age of Greece”
“A radical inner transformation and rise to a new level of consciousness might be the only real hope we have in the current global crisis brought on by the dominance of the Western mechanistic paradigm.”
“With will one can do anything.”
“Time washes clean, love's wounds unseen.”
“Music to me, still to this day, is this wide open landscape of potential sounds (and I have more words for it now as a grown person), but as a little kid I used to think, "oh, you can just make up melodies and sometimes when you make certain melodies it makes you feel a certain way."”

Source : Interview with Charles Carman, www.curatormagazine.com. June 16, 2014.
“I'm not one of those people who thinks they simply deserve success. I have the drive to work.”
“The truth is that many people set rules to keep from making decisions.”
“You think that the only thing that counts is the bottom line! What a presumptuous thing to say. The bottom line is in heaven.”

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