#eli

To the mass of mankind religion of some kind is a necessity. ↗

— Alfred Russel Wallace

#mankind #mass #necessity #religion #some

The thing that bums me out about 'The Real World' is I don't want to believe that teenagers are that stupid. ↗

— Kathy Griffin

#believe #bums #i #me #out

If you are a novelist of a certain type of temperament, then what you really want to do is re-invent the world. God wasn't too bad a novelist, except he was a Realist. ↗

— John Barth

#certain #except #god #novelist #realist

If they take their children to doctors, they believe they are putting their faith in man instead of in God. ↗

— Bob Bartlett

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It would do the world good if every man would compel himself occasionally to be absolutely alone. Most of the world s progress has come out of such loneliness. ↗

— Bruce Barton

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Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance. ↗

— Bruce Barton

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My progress was rendered delightful by the sylvan elegance of the groves, chearful meadows, and high distant forests, which in grand order presented themselves to view. ↗

— William Bartram

#delightful #distant #elegance #forests #grand

I'm not interested in being Wonder Woman in the delivery room. Give me drugs. ↗

— Madonna Ciccone

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Idealism springs from deep feelings, but feelings are nothing without the formulated idea that keeps them whole. ↗

— Jacques Barzun

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By the time I was 9, I had the conviction that everybody in the world was an artist except plumbers or people who delivered groceries. ↗

— Jacques Barzun

#by the time #conviction #delivered #everybody #except