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A man who always says what he really thinks or believes seldom goes a long way, which goes a long way to explain, why so few of us always say what we really think or believe.

After suffering the pain of childbirth and giving life, you are far less likely to inflict the pain of taking life.

as no one is born a hater of people it is never entirely out of the question for hatred made to become hatred unmade

Concerning war, even more important than examining the conscience of the conscientious objector, is examining the conscience of the conscientious supporter.

Don’t judge a book, by looking at its colour.

When faith and doubt go together in religion, isn’t there really an absence of or defective faith in those with no doubt?

for many of us it is difficult to imagine the creation of the material world by an immaterial God

For many people, when thinking about the hereafter, it is neither here nor there whether or not there’s a there after here.

Holocene Anthropocene Suicide Scene Final Scene Why? Because we keep on adding unnatural disasters to natural disasters.

If a possibility is something achievable, for otherwise it wouldn’t be a possibility, and if it is true that our world is neither the best nor the worst of all possible worlds, then it may indeed eventually become the best of all possible worlds.

If you want to learn a lot very quickly, aphorisms are for you. If you’re interested in many subjects, aphorisms are for you. If you haven’t got sufficient time, aphorisms are for you. If you want to understand the necessary free of the unnecessary, or essence expressed in the epitome, aphorisms are for you. If you like a surprise, nice turn of phrase, touch of philosophy or splash of humour, aphorisms are for you. If you enjoy debate, controversy or provocation, aphorisms are for you.

It may be true that charity begins at home. But often it goes no further. Unlike many other things, for instance bigotry and violence, which often go a great deal further.

lack of money is just as much the root of evil as love of money

most politicians are blind to blame and blame to blind

we become the product of the products we produce

Thanks to modern media, we can all see the world close up. And guess what, it is full of different sorts of people who are more or less the same.

the danger of defining is confining

The financial crisis and Covid 19, 20, 21, 22 and counting became the mother and father of the need to deal with global warming and climate change. For any failure to prevent repetition or rectify will further damage, destroy, incinerate or drown our wealth and health.

the interests of ego must always respect and never neglect the needs of eco

The notion that time began when space began and both began with the biggest of bangs, will become meaningless if scientists ever discover that neither space nor time ever began at a beginning that never began.

The world is finite, but infused with infinity, while man is mortal, but enthused by immortality.

we accumulate by giving

we all exist at the end of time at the beginning of time and at the same time

We are part of nature, not apart from nature.

We have all seen many manmade disasters, but how many womanmade disasters?

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