"If we are too friendly to nice, decent bishops, we run the risk of buying into the fiction that there's something virtuous about believing things because of faith rather than because of evidence. We run the risk of betraying scientific enlightenment."
Richard Dawkins
"The Englishman respects your opinions but he never thinks of your feelings."
Wilfrid Laurier
"You British plundered half the world for your own profit. Let's not pass it off as the Age of Enlightenment."
Paddy Chayefsky
"To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart."
Anonymous
"Seek respect not attention."
Ben Bereng
"There are two sorts of curiosity - the momentary and the permanent. The momentary is concerned with the odd appearance on the surface of things. The permanent is attracted by the amazing and consecutive life that flows on beneath the surface of things."
Robert Wilson Lynd
"I thought that when I spilled one secret, the rest would come tumbling after, but openness is a habit you form over time, and not a switch you flip whenever you want to, I'm finding."
Veronica Roth
ZizzFeed
"Lord Derfel, you do insult a man so very easily. What was it to be? My head in a pit dunged by slaves? What a paltry imagination you do have. Mine, I fear, sometimes seems excessive, even to me."
Bernard Cornwell
"In the beginning, science is a thing imagined; in the beginning, war is a thing imagined; in the beginning, love is a thing imagined; in the beginning, even God is a thing imagined. There is nothing that has not first been imagined. Even before there are words, there is imagination."
Bakhtiyar Ali
"In a world full of lions and tigers entertaining the masses, have you ever seen a wolf performing in a circus?"
Akilnathan Logeswaran
"There is no truth in him."
Bible
"In their vanity men focus on what they wish to hear and miss the hidden meaning, the lurking threat."
David Hewson
"Pain & suffering requires time, awareness, and an intentional practice of self-love to disentangle."
Sharon Salzberg
"Because beauty will be so readily accessible, and skin color and features will be similar, prejudices based on physical features will be nearly eradicated. Prejudice will be socioeconomically based."
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