#eli

An opening statement is like a guide or a road map. It's a very delicate thing. ↗

— Johnnie Cochran

#guide #like #map #opening #road

A childish soul not inoculated with compulsory prayer is a soul open to any religious infection. ↗

— Alexander Cockburn

#childish #compulsory #infection #inoculated #open

Our mother was a very religious and observant Jew, our father less so. She was kind of driving the religious education, so for us it was more a burden and an obligation when we were kids at that age. ↗

— Joel Coen

#burden #driving #education #father #jew

The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed. ↗

— Jean Cocteau

#asks #believed #never #poet #wants

I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you dislike? ↗

— Jean Cocteau

#dislike #else #explain #how #i

I think it's also the case that I'm not as widely travelled, or as well-educated in history, as most of the other novelists I meet: so I have to write about my own country, at the present time, because it's more or less all I know about! ↗

— Jonathan Coe

#also #because #case #country #history

Perhaps these Ten Commandments cases will be the turning point in the legal war against religion. ↗

— Cliff Stearns

#cases #commandments #legal #perhaps #point

You can always tell what you believe by what you are getting. ↗

— Alan Cohen

#believe #getting #tell #you

A creative element is surely present in all great systems, and it does not seem possible that all sympathy or fundamental attitudes of will can be entirely eliminated from any human philosophy. ↗

— Morris Raphael Cohen

#attitudes #creative #does #element #eliminated

Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same. ↗

— Helen Keller

#delight #flower #fragrance #garden #i