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| d3da1de | My main reason for scepticism about the Huxley/Sagan theory is that the human brain is demonstrably eager to see faces in random patterns, as we know from scientific evidence, on top of the numerous legends about faces of Jesus, or the Virgin Mary, or Mother Teresa, being seen on slices of toast, or pizzas, or patches of damp on a wall. This eagerness is enhanced if the pattern departs from randomness in the specific direction of being symm.. | evidence evolution religion science sir-julian-huxley theory | Richard Dawkins | |
| 750f7f6 | If this dysfunctional family was the best Sodom had to offer by way of morals, some might begin to feel a certain sympathy with God and his judicial brimstone. | religion | Richard Dawkins | |
| 5b09b87 | If superior creatures from space ever visit earth, the first question they will ask, in order to assess the level of our civilization, is: 'Have they discovered evolution yet? | Richard Dawkins | ||
| 99ce82c | I speculate that we shall come to accept the more radical idea that each one of our genes is a symbiotic unit. We are gigantic colonies of symbiotic genes. | symbiosis | Richard Dawkins | |
| 598ffc9 | I prefer to say that I believe in people, and people, when given the right encouragement to think for themselves about all the information now available, very often turn out not to believe in God and to lead fulfilled and satisfied--indeed, liberated--lives. | Richard Dawkins | ||
| ba14936 | Being financially secure is truly a life-enhancer; it sweetly oils the wheels of life. But remember: to talk of money, the excess of it or the lack of it, is vulgar to the extreme. One either boasts or whines, and neither makes for good conversation. | Rosamunde Pilcher | ||
| a4d7ab3 | a man cannot fulfill his purpose if he is living for applause, approval, and affirmation in this world. It simply will not come--not enough, certainly, to answer the needs of his soul. | Stephen Mansfield | ||
| 3bdbd03 | She already has my heart. I would like for her to take my penis, too. Is that so much to ask? | Shayla Black | ||
| 40bf3df | I can't think straight around her. I think love is turning me into a Disney character. Damn it. I always thought I'd be someone interesting out of a Star Trek episode, but I kind of want to break into a song a little. Just a little. | lexi-blake shayla-black tate their-virgin-secretary | Lexi Blake | |
| c0a8f60 | the gift given for no reason is the purest gift of all. | L.A. Banks | ||
| 0f82c00 | First blood has been shed. | Lora Leigh | ||
| 29e04b5 | He couldn't even find the will to yell at her now. A real man didn't yell at those who weren't exactly sane themselves, he told himself. | sanity skye-o-brien | Lora Leigh | |
| 7976896 | Yes, he would be gone, but she knew now what it meant to love. She might not know what it meant to be loved, but loving was almost as good. | maverick ops rissa | Lora Leigh | |
| 25b9a4a | So, our weapons are the Word used in various ways. We can pray the word, speak the word, sing the word, and study the word. As Paul tells us in 2 Corinthians, our weapons are not carnal (fleshly) weapons; they are spiritual. We need spiritual weapons because we are fighting master spirits, yes, even the devil himself. Even Jesus used the weapon of the Word in the wilderness to defeat the devil. (See Luke 4:1-13.) Each time the devil lied to.. | Joyce Meyer | ||
| 470a0d6 | You will invest in something as you live your life, so make sure it is something that will pay dividends you will enjoy. | Joyce Meyer | ||
| 5201713 | So get rid of all uncleanness and the rampant outgrowth of wickedness, and in a humble (gentle, modest) spirit receive and welcome the Word which implanted and rooted [in your hearts] contains the power to save your souls. James 1:21 | Joyce Meyer | ||
| 44ad922 | Let each of you esteem and look upon and be concerned for not [merely] his own interests, but also each for the interests of others. Philippians 2:4 | Joyce Meyer | ||
| 96b7178 | As children of God, one of the privileges we have is believing the impossible. | Joyce Meyer | ||
| 23c34cd | For the weapons of our warfare are not physical [weapons of flesh and blood], but they are mighty before God for the overthrow and destruction of strongholds, [Inasmuch as we] refute arguments and theories and reasonings and every proud and lofty thing that sets itself up against the [true] knowledge of God; and we lead every thought and purpose away captive into the obedience of Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed One). 2 Corinthians 10:4,5 | Joyce Meyer | ||
| 6992f97 | When we refuse to forgive, we are in disobedience to God's Word. We open a door for Satan to start all kinds of trouble in our lives. We hinder the flow of love toward others. Our faith is blocked and our prayers are hindered. We are miserable and lose our joy. Our attitudes are poisoned and we spew the poison onto everyone we meet. The price we pay to hang on to our bitter feelings is definitely not worth it. Unforgiveness does have devast.. | Joyce Meyer | ||
| b3de18a | W]hen I told my dad why I was calling, he just said, 'Honey, you're so beautiful it doesn't matter what you wear.' I wondered how many dads in America were, at that very moment, giving their daughters the same useless advice mine was giving me. | clothing fathers | Melissa Kantor | |
| cd0e10f | If I was going to do something, I wanted to give my life over to it, to love it, to wake up in the morning for it like I had for dance. | Melissa Kantor | ||
| 792f327 | She saw hopelessness as an old enemy, as persistent and inevitable as death. | Grace Metalious | ||
| d8fb8ae | Indian summer is like a woman. | opening-lines simile | Grace Metalious | |
| 62540e4 | 4:15. Not 4 not 4:30 but 4:15. She thought to intimidate me with the use of quarter hours. | Muriel Spark | ||
| 1d91da2 | They are demanding equal rights with us,' says Mrs. Fiedke. 'That's why I never vote with the Liberals. Perfume, jewellery, hair down to their shoulders, and I'm not talking about the ones who were born like that. I mean, the ones that can't help it should be put on an island. It's the others I'm talking about. There was a time they would stand up and open the door for you. They would take their hat off. But they want their equality today. .. | Muriel Spark | ||
| 3ad8008 | Ah'll clean 'em, you fry 'em and let's eat,' he said with the assurance of not being refused. They went out into the kitchen and fixed up the hot fish and corn muffins and ate. Then Tea Cake went to the piano without so much as asking and began playing blues and singing, and throwing grins over his shoulder. The sounds lulled Janie to soft slumber and she woke up with Tea Cake combing her hair and scratching the dandruff from her scalp. It .. | Zora Neale Hurston | ||
| fa5a914 | It seemed to me that the human beings I met reacted pretty much the same to the same stimuli. Different idioms,yes. Circumstances and conditions having power to influence, yes. Inherent difference, no. | Zora Neale Hurston | ||
| 4e2d441 | Our lives are so diversified, internal attitudes so varied, appearances and capabilities so different, that there is no possible classification so catholic that it will cover us all, except My people! My people! | Zora Neale Hurston | ||
| fc45fc1 | It seems to me that organized creeds are collections of words around a wish. I feel no need for such. I know that nothing is destructible; things merely change forms. When the consciousness we know as life ceases, I know that I shall still be part and parcel of the world." -Zora Neale Hurston" | Zora Neale Hurston | ||
| aee6d91 | Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board. For some they come in with the tide. For others they sail forever on the same horizon, never out of sight, never landing until the Watcher turns his eyes away in resignation, his dreams mocked to death by Time. That is the life of men. | Zora Neale Hurston | ||
| 5fc2796 | Now, women forget all those things they don't want to remember, and remember everything they don't want to forget. The dream is the truth. Then they act and do things accordingly. | Zora Neale Hurston | ||
| 476d660 | I recognize the divinity in you, but actually more like, I recognize our each-otherness, instantly | Anne Lamott | ||
| 0e2bfb7 | This is who I want to be in the world. This is who I think we are supposed to be, people who help call forth human beings from deep inside hopelessness. | Anne Lamott | ||
| b1f16f0 | Does sunset sometimes look like the sun is coming up? Do you know what a faithful love is like? You're crying; you say you've burned yourself. But can you think of anyone who's not hazy with smoke? --Rumi | Anne Lamott | ||
| d8a7fe0 | Growing up is not going nearly as efficiently as I had hoped. | Anne Lamott | ||
| 3aeba0a | Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people. It will keep you cramped and insane your whole life ... | Anne Lamott | ||
| ad36c14 | That's what's so touching about weddings: Two people fall in love, and decide to see if their love might stand up over time, if there might be enough grace and forgiveness and memory lapses to help the whole shebang hang together. | love marriage weddings | Anne Lamott | |
| dc74d61 | Believing in George Bush was so ludicrous that believing in God almost seems rational. | Anne Lamott | ||
| 0f6c2ae | Maybe, I thought, after a few months of sobriety, you could successfully smoke marijuana again, or maybe every anniversary you got to have one glass of a perfectly chilled California Chardonnay. | Anne Lamott | ||
| ab572f4 | but at the same time, they got a miracle. It wasn't the kind that comes on a Macy's Thanksgiving Day float. And it wasn't the one that they wanted, where God would reach down from the sky and touch their girl with a magic wand and restore her to perfect health. Maybe that will still happen-who knows? I wouldn't put anything past God, because he or she is one crafty mother. Still, they did get a miracle, one of those dusty little red-wagon m.. | Anne Lamott | ||
| 0abf4c1 | I understood that the man I was calling for could never ever come back. Because I understood that the man that I was calling for was dead. | Anne Lamott | ||
| 9635912 | Easter says that love is more powerful than death, bigger than the dark, bigger than cancer, bigger even than airport security lines. | Anne Lamott | ||
| 24f613f | To heal, it seems we have to stand in the middle of the horror, at the foot of the cross, and wait out another's suffering where that person can see us. To be honest, that sucks. It's the worst, even if you are the mother of God. | Anne Lamott |