Quote from Sunday Adelaja, The Mountain of Ignorance
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Quote from Cassandra Clare, The Iron Trial
Fire wants to burn Water wants to flow Air wants to rise Earth wants to bindChaos wants to devourCal wants to live
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Quote from Walter M. Miller Jr., A Canticle for Leibowitz
But neither infinite power nor infinite wisdom could bestow godhood upon men. For that there would have to be infinite love as well.
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Quote from Nick Harkaway, The Blind Giant
Privacy is a protection from the unreasonable use of state and corporate power. But that is, in a sense, a secondary thing. In the first instance, privacy is the statement in words of a simple understanding, which belongs to the instinctive world rather than the formal one, that some things are the province of those who experience them and not naturally open to the scrutiny of others: courtship and love, with their emotional nakedness; the simple moments of family life; the appalling rawness of grief. That the state and other systems are precluded from snooping on these things is important – it is a strong barrier between the formal world and the hearth, extended or not – but at root privacy is a simple understanding: not everything belongs to everyone.
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Quote from Christopher Hitchens, The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever
I have met some highly intelligent believers, but history has no record to say that [s]he knew or understood the mind of god. Yet this is precisely the qualification which the godly must claim—so modestly and so humbly—to possess. It is time to withdraw our ‘respect’ from such fantastic claims, all of them aimed at the exertion of power over other humans in the real and material world.