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long-ago years two
Every year white people add 100 years to how long ago slavery was. I've heard educated white people say, 'slavery was 400 years ago.' No it very wasn't. It was 140 years ago...that's two 70-year-old ladies living and dying back to back. That's how recently you could buy a guy. Louis C. K.
long-ago ideas sorrow
This world is not a vale of sorrows if you will recognize discriminatingly what is truly excellent in it; and if you will avail yourself of it for mutual happiness and well-being. Therefore, let us explain as often as possible, and particularly at the departure of life, that we base our faith on firm foundations, on Truth for putting into action our ideas which do not depend on fables and ideas which Science has long ago proven to be false. Kurt Vonnegut
long-ago southern thames
I long ago suggested the hypothesis, that in the basin of the Thames there are indications of a meeting in the Pleistocene period of a northern and southern fauna. Charles Lyell
long-ago years half
Long ago, I did a five-and-a-half-hour-a-day, six-day-a-week talk show for four years, early on, in Los Angeles - local show. And when you are on that many hours with no script, you know, you get very comfortable, maybe overly comfortable with that small audience. Betty White
long-ago soldier needs
We New Yorkers see more death and violence than most soldiers do, grow a thick chitin on our backs, grimace like a rat and learn to do a disappearing act. Long ago we outgrew the need to be blowhards about our masculinity; we leave that to the Alaskans and Texans, who have more time for it. Edward Hoagland
long-ago long virtue
There was a time when Patience ceased to be a virtue. It was long ago. Charlotte Perkins Gilman
long-ago people trying
I gave up trying to understand people long ago. Now I let them try to understand me! Charles M. Schulz
long-ago would-be dull
. . . the newspapers of Utopia, he had long ago decided, would be terribly dull. Arthur C. Clarke
long-ago childhood forgiving
I was forgiven by forgiving many things Including my long-ago childhood I was healed, but I intended [ to ] heal I've just noticed, the way I was saved by love Though I tried to keep love away. Ayumi Hamasaki
atheism three wealth
The three great apostles of practical atheism, that make converts without persecuting, and retain them without preaching, are wealth, health and power. Charles Caleb Colton
atheism divine sovereignty
Opposition to divine sovereignty is essentially atheism. Charles Spurgeon
atheism doe world
As a social and as a personal force, religion has become a dependent variable. It does not originate; it reacts. It does not denounce; it adapts. It does not set forth new models of conduct and sensibility; it imitates. Its rhetoric is without deep appeal; the worship it organizes is without piety. It has become less a revitalization of the spirit in permanent tension with the world than a respectable distraction from the sourness of life. C. Wright Mills
atheism foxholes chaplains
There's a Chaplain who never visited the front.
atheism today socialism
We aim in the domain of politics at republicanism; in the domain of economics at socialism; in the domain of what is today called religion, at atheism. August Bebel
atheism movement goes-on
The stony-minded orthodox were right in fearing the first movement of new knowledge and free thought. It has gone on, and will go on, irresistibly, until some day we shall have no respect for an alleged "truth" which cannot stand the full blaze of knowledge, the full force of active thought.
atheism affirmation made
Idle and meaningless ... a form less solemn to me than the affirmation I would have reverently made. Charles Bradlaugh
atheism public-opinion court
There is a court to which I shall appeal: the court of public opinion.
atheism liberty chiefs
Liberty's chief foe is theology.