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If we submit everything to reason our religion will be left with nothing mysterious or supernatural. If we offend the principles of reason our religion will be absurd and ridiculous . . . There are two equally dangerous extremes: to exclude reason, to admit nothing but reason. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#reason #religion #equality

My background playing soccer gave me a natural advantage over many of the American-born players. ↗

— Hakeem Olajuwon

#american-born #background #gave #many #me

The thing that makes a creative person is to be creative and that is all there is to it. ↗

— Edward Albee

#creative person #makes #person #thing

Happiness is not the absence of problems, it's the ability to deal with them. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#happiness #inspirational #life-lessons #motivational #problems

I built my own hi-fi set and enjoyed helping friends with their amateur radio transmitters, but lost interest as soon as they worked. ↗

— Robert W. Wilson

#built #enjoyed #friends #helping #hi-fi

Deciding to wait, Scott sat down with a pint away from the bar at a corner table and lit a cigarette. The clientele in there on Sunday afternoon were the same as most other afternoons. From middle-aged to old men, drinking and cursing at the world like it was the last bus which had just left the stop without them. ↗

— R.D. Ronald

#reflection #age

I've come to the point in my life where I encourage young Native Americans to become much more selfish about their personal needs and wants. ↗

— Sherman Alexie

#become #come #encourage #i #life

A pile of bills and statements - whether paid or not - is a sign that someone is clueless about what's coming in and going out. ↗

— Suze Orman

#bills #clueless #coming #going #out

To the person that deals in visualizations, I suppose there is something rather exciting about a whole set of people - they all going symmetrically, up or down, in a military sort of precision. ↗

— Leo Ornstein

#deals #down #exciting #going #i

The goal with a big piece of social legislation is to have a bipartisan result, so the country will accept it. ↗

— Lamar Alexander

#big #bipartisan #country #goal #legislation