Julian Baggini
Related If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th... GARY F EVANS... THOMAS HARRIS A couple of customers interrupted [...] who wanted to know if we had some YA book about ants and ali... SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON We may not get to choose how we die, but we can chose how we live. SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON Dreams are hopeful because they exist as pure possibility. Unlike memories, which are fossils, long ... SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON I knew there was something peculiar about you," she said. "And I mean that as the highest compliment... RANSOM RIGGS STEPHEN CHBOSKY We should not blame people by the mistakes of others. DANIEL MELGAçO Are shadows a shadowy reflection of the soul or is it a reflection of who we really are, or possibly... GARY F EVANS... Because you can only die once but you can suffer forever. SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON CRAIG GROESCHEL DAVID LEVITHAN CRAIG GROESCHEL The words you can’t find, you borrow.GABRIELLE ZEVIN WILLIAM BLAKE I am aware that everyone that exists has a story, and we all exist because that story is important f... ARZELL Dae FATE NAYAE Nanagha Vandhuttoom Da, Sandy , Na Nata, London Lass,Russian Grapes, Ellorum Ippa Van... SATHESH KUMAR M What, the glass is half-full instead of half-empty? Bullshit. What they don't tell you is that regar... T.J. KLUNE WILLIAM BLAKE ANTHONY T. HINCKS VIRONIKA TUGALEVA Here in Canada, the people who oppose the tar sands most forcefully are Indigenous people living dow... NAOMI KLEIN Again, we are asking any and all individuals who have not yet made a donation to please make their d... NEVA VOGT RALPH WALDO EMERSON Our failures in charity are chained to a narrowed vision of the world that makes too much of the dif... REBECCA GOLDSTEIN ABHIJIT NASKAR Gorillas may seem terrifying because of their bodies, but they are really magnificent and very gentl... K. A. APPLEGATE JOHN DONNE BRIGITTE BARDOT They are young but they are getting better. I hope the younger kids are learning from their older te... CATHY MARTIN What is the meaning of life…to give life meaning. CLIFFORD COHEN DOUGLAS COUPLAND Air is approximately 21% oxygen, our brains feed off of oxygen. So basically we are all airheads. ANDONI GARCIA Inspired By Beauty In Creation We Are One DANIEL GILMAN DEYTH BANGER Everyone is the Umbrella Man and he is everyone. Every cough, sneeze, smile and wave means both ever... CRAIG CLEVENGER This success permits us to hope that after thirty or forty years of observation on the new Planet [N... URBAIN LE VERRIER We also hope to send out a clear message to gay-lesbian-bisexual-transgender students that God loves... JACOB REITAN OSHO CINDY SHEEHAN CHARLES HODGE EMANUEL SWEDENBORG LEO TOLSTOY C.S. LEWIS ADAM HAMILTON You are worth more than you think you are SOTONYE ANGA WENDY MASS We hope they will review their position, because if they do not, it will damage the atmosphere of un... JAWAD AL-MALIKI CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS JOHN CONNOLLY If you love someone you must set them free like the wind and give them the respect they deserve.If y... GARY F EVANS... HENRY CLOUD Whether they realize it or not, artists who do their works of art by copying from nudes and nature a... DAVID L. HATTON Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an... LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD ALFRED KORZYBSKI I think in many ways they torment mainstream Americans because we worry sometimes that they may be h... DON KRAYBILL We collect things not just for their monetary value, but also because they tell the story of who we ... LOUISA JAGGAR EMANUEL SWEDENBORG LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Bodies have their own light which they consume to live: they burn, they are not lit from the outside... EGON SCHIELE AKIROQ BROST DEYTH BANGER DEYTH BANGER ANTHONY TROLLOPE The values of WikiLeaks have been completely overshadowed by Julian Assange. HEATHER BROOKE DAN ARIELY They are working on it, ... We don't know the exact reasons yet, they are searching [for] any techni... TAYYIP ERDOGAN RUDYARD KIPLING Polls explain, not predict. They are instruments that have limits and collect answers from people wh... FERNANDO TUESTA If you say you will lead a people to a new age then do it, but don't hide behind your laws as an exc... DEAN IBERHYSAJ It is not the grain of grass that will decide mans future but the bullet that comes from the barrel ... DEAN IBERHYSAJ We are funded by churches and individuals who are interested in what we are doing, that is the sole ... NITA ZELENAK CRAIG GROESCHEL IAIN M. BANKS MARCO RUBIO JOSEPH CAMPBELL CRISS JAMI We can think of changes to the oceans locally, but in terms of human health we have to look globally... MERCEDES PASCUAL DEYTH BANGER TERRY GOODKIND They have lost their shyness because they know that they are not threatened by the cars. Park visito... DIEGO BOCK ANDREW YOUNG We cannot buy it. We are too poor. Then men who have made the law have taken our own drink from us, ... NEIL M. GUNN DALE E. TURNER They have proved they are not a rubber stamp. But we don't know yet what the common theme is because... DAVID BERTEAU We understand there are people who prefer we not use this nickname. There may even be some who say t... CHARLES KUPCHELLA JOHN OWEN What we want is not just that they construct a building but that they also build the community. The ... EMILIO HERNANDEZ If we are seeking to serve the God of truth then we should really welcome truth from whatever source... JOHN C. POLKINGHORNE J.R.R. TOLKIEN We are not trying to frighten parents from coming just because they may not have all the information... BARBARA BATTS JOHN TILLOTSON JOHN TILLOTSON ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES We think they are doing it because of malpractice concerns. They may also be under pressure rom pare... CHARLOTTE JONES What we showed is that many of the people who are classified in this way have it due to the medicati... KAREN RITCHIE The gunmen are of Thai nationality but we believe that they were hired by secret agents who support ... LT. COLSANTHIPAB MEEPHOL Our students are suffering not because they are Muslims but because of the image created by the medi... JAVED AKHTAR We can not, therefore, reserve as sacred anything that is not truth and yet we cannot turn from thin... LEVIAK B. KELLY People in general romanticize nature, and they make it out to be something that it isn't because... ELISE ANDREW
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Orion is above the horizon now, and near it Jupiter, brighter than it will ever be ... But i expect ... 
So, tomorrow, I'm leaving. And I'm not going to let that happen again with anyone else. I'm going to... 
The answer isn't more time but a greater awareness of the time we have. 
You can find sorrow in the arithmetic, and you can find a bittersweet hope. 
We are far from perfect but willing to be different. 
The words you can’t find, you borrow.
Men are admitted into heaven not because they have curbed and governed their passions or have no pas... 
Men are admitted into Heaven not because they have curbed and governed their passions or have no pas... 
Aliens have been here for millennium.
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I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made ... 
We are not divine beings in mortal bodies. We are mortal bodies in pursuit of constructing divine pe... 
Feast of John and Charles Wesley, Priests, Poets, Teachers, 1791 & 1788 He was but a heathen that ... 
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It was pivotal in making you but you don't remember it. Or do you? Do we understand the events that ... 
We are this fucking stick in the end... 
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I know that they are in heaven, ... and I know that that's why this movement is growing because we h... 
Feast of the Venerable Bede, Priest, Monk of Jarrow, Historian, 735 Commemoration of Aldhelm, Abbot... 
This Divine truth flows into heaven from the Lord from His Divine love. 
Just think! This whole world of ours is only a speck of mildew sprung up on a tiny planet, yet we th... 
The Christian is in a different position from other people who are trying to be good. They hope, by ... 
We live in bodies that are fearfully and wonderfully made, yet they are not immune to illness and pa... 
We are here because over billions of years, countless variables fell into place, any of which could ... 
These people have no religion, neither are they idolaters, but are a very gentle race, without the k... 
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