Finding that no religion is based on facts and cannot therefore be true, I began to reflect what must be the condition of mankind trained from infancy to believe in errors.
Robert Owen
"Its hardness and solidity had been an odd kind of comfort. Do not wish for anything. Be and endure. The Old African had learned that enduring was power too, and just as he had been drawn to the boulder, so the slaves, after a while, were drawn to him."
Julius Lester
"I am not a great fan of computers. I do watch videos and analyse which batsman is playing how. Batsmen can play different shots on different days. A batsman may not play cover drives well, but if he connects with two such shots, he starts playing the drive well on that day."
Harbhajan Singh
"Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything."
Blaise Pascal
"When women agree with me I always do the other thing."
Charles Bukowski
"The wacky thing about those bad guys is that you can't count on them to be obvious. They forget to wax their mustaches and goatees, leave their horns at home, send their black hats to the dry cleaner's. They're funny like that."
Anonymous
"On a cooler sun on a primordial earth: 'I later learned that biologists, when they are feeling jocose, refer to this as the 'Chinese Resaturant Problem'--because we has a dim sun."
Bill Bryson
Inspiration
Where there are no tigers a wildcat is very self-important.
Korean proverb
"If you can’t see the feelings in a donkey, a ship, or a delicate tool, then it’s just as easy to not see them in your brother or sister when you can profit by treating them badly."
J.Z. Colby
"Most people do not believe in anything very much and our greatest poetry is given to us by those that do."
Cyril Connolly
"I fail to see how turning the subject over like compost can do anything except raise its stink."
Sonya Hartnett
"The line from psychologists is, if you’ve seen it before, it hasn’t killed you yet."
Derek Thompson
"Inside her, great castles of comprehension, models of the world as she had understood it, shivered. She could not decide whether to let them crumble or to try desperately to save them."
Adam Gidwitz
"Dignity is pride’s barometer."
Unknown
Inspiration
It does no service to the cause of racial equality for white people to content themselves with judging themselves to be nonracist. Few people outside the clan or skinhead movements own up to all-out racism these days. White people must take the extra step. They must become anti-racist.
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