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The great moral questions of the present age are those about human rights, war, poverty, the vast disparities between rich and poor, the fact that somewhere in the third world a child dies every two and a half seconds because of starvation or remediable disease. The churches` obsessions over pre-marital sex and whether divorced couples can remarry in church appears contemptible in the light of this mountain of human suffering and need. By distracting attention from what really counts, and focusing it on the minor and anyway futile attempt to get people to conduct their personal lives only in ways the church permits, harm is done to the cause of good in the world.
It is not long in historical terms since Christian priests were burning people at the stake if they did not believe that wine turns to blood when a priest prays over it, and that the earth sits immovably at the universe`s centre, or [...] since they were whipping people and slitting their noses and ears for having sex outside marriage [...]. To this day adulterers are stoned to death in certain Muslim countries; if the priests were still on top in the once-Christian world, who can say it would be different?
You cannot overestimate the stupidity of your audience. Insist on the obvious and glide nimbly over the esssential.
Nothing has any power over me other than that which I give it through my conscious thoughts.
If my critics saw me walking over the Thames they would say it was because I couldn`t swim.
You triumphed over me since it’s my fate
Incessantly to fail in all my struggles
But then, revitalized, to rise again.
It is always the case, with mathematics, that a little direct experience of thinking over things on your own can provide a much deeper understanding than merely reading about them.
The quality of one`s emotional life changes over the years [...], but the basic instincts and desires, greed and hope, seem to remain constant.
There are only about five really good stories, and writers just tell them over and over, with different characters.
Don`t promise that you`re gonna write
Don`t promise that you`ll call
Just promise that you won`t forget we had it all
Cause you were mine, for the summer
Now we know it`s nearly over
Feels like snow in September
But I always will remember
You were my summer love
You always will be my summer love.
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.
Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.
What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup.