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“That if desperate times call for desperate measures, then I'm free to act as desperately as I wish.”
― Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire

“But what if the Bible was not God’s word? What if it was just a collection of books and letters written by men: expressing their own (often barbaric) opinions? What”
― Steve McRoberts, The Cure for Fundamentalism: Why the Bible Cannot be the "Word of God"

“Could it be that the reason so many people believe that the Bible is God’s word is that so many people have never read it? Most people have heard parts of it quoted, but they’ve never sat down and read through even one book of the Bible on their own with their brains engaged.”
― Steve McRoberts, The Cure for Fundamentalism: Why the Bible Cannot be the "Word of God"

“the Bible is God’s word, it should speak to the common man in easily understandable language. We should not have to rely on theologians who may tell us what they want us to believe.”
― Steve McRoberts, The Cure for Fundamentalism: Why the Bible Cannot be the "Word of God"

“And if we burn, you burn with us.”
― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

“It takes ten times as long to put yourself back together as it does to fall apart.”
― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

“Deep in the meadow, hidden far away
A cloak of leaves, a moonbeam ray
Forget your woes and let your troubles lay
And when it's morning again, they'll wash away
Here it's safe, here it's warm
Here the daisies guard you from every harm
Here your dreams are sweet and tomorrow brings them true
Here is the place where I love you.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

“This implies that the man did not know the difference between good and evil prior to eating the forbidden fruit. If that was the case, how could God expect him to know that it was "wrong" (or "evil") to disobey him? If he did not know the difference between right and wrong then it would hardly be fair to punish him for doing wrong.”
― Steve McRoberts, The Cure for Fundamentalism: Why the Bible Cannot be the "Word of God"

“Gen:6:6: And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart. We know that a perfect being would never repent of any of his perfect actions, and would not grieve (since he could foresee and forestall any incident which would cause him grief). Other Bible writers agree with this: Num:23:19: God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good? Genesis says that God repented. Numbers says that God cannot repent. Is it possible to believe both of these statements? If not, then it is impossible to believe the Bible as a whole.”
― Steve McRoberts, The Cure for Fundamentalism: Why the Bible Cannot be the "Word of God"

“According to Genesis, the flood took place only 1,656 years after creation. To give you an idea of how recent that was, the Bible tells us that Noah's grandfather, Methuselah, was 113 years old when Adam finally died, and Methuselah died the year of the flood (possibly due to the flood and a very unconcerned grandson). So someone who was personally acquainted with the first created man was still alive when the flood began!”
― Steve McRoberts, The Cure for Fundamentalism: Why the Bible Cannot be the "Word of God"

“But if Noah was perfect (as the Bible claims he was in Gen. 6:9), then he wouldn’t have been tainted with the imperfection of sin, and just as the descendants of Adam had "inherited" sin, the descendants of Noah would have inherited sinlessness. So Noah’s descendants (which would be the entire human race) would have escaped from "Original Sin" and wouldn’t need to be "saved from their sins". This makes”
― Steve McRoberts, The Cure for Fundamentalism: Why the Bible Cannot be the "Word of God"

“Nitwit! Blubber! Oddment! Tweak!”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

“How do you take your entire life with you if you have to walk out the door with only what you can carry? How?”
― M.L. Gardner, 1929

“I didn’t realize it would be so expensive to be poor.”
― M.L. Gardner, 1929

“You’ll do one of two things. Either ye’ll shut yer trap and carry yer disagreeable arse back to yer apartment, or ye’ll shut yer trap an' join us for a drink, leavin’ yer problems at the door.”
― M.L. Gardner, 1929

“if you use your own thinking to check things, then you are going against Jehovah.”
― Joseph winters, Jehovah's Witnesses: Help for Those Seeking Truth

“valuable lesson from the experience: people with entrenched religious beliefs will always sidestep reason and fall back on toeing the party line, people from all religions,”
― Joseph winters, Jehovah's Witnesses: Help for Those Seeking Truth

“Music theory, then, very simply, could be defined as a search for how and why music sounds right or wrong. In other words, the purpose of music theory is to explain why something sounded the way it did and how that sound can be made again.”
― Michael Pilhofer, Music Theory For Dummies

“repeating the commonplaces about atheism and materialism and sophistry, which are the stock-accusations against all philosophers when there is nothing else to be said of them.”
― Plato, Complete Works

“You can do anything you want in life.”
― Lee Vickers, Bodies of Light

“Love was something that at times was very scarce, especially self-love.”
― Lee Vickers, Bodies of Light

“We subconsciously do our part when you allow yourself to be connected up to the carrier wave of light.”
― Lee Vickers, Bodies of Light

“All it takes is a lot of love and light directed toward a given area to create miracles.”
― Lee Vickers, Bodies of Light

“Sometimes the lessons are uncomfortable. But there will always be comfort in the”
― Lee Vickers, Bodies of Light

“The river of light will find a way if you pull it through you.”
― Lee Vickers, Bodies of Light

“Everything you could be is dependent upon you making a conscious decision to open up to this river of light within yourself.”
― Lee Vickers, Bodies of Light

“be careful what you meditate on and think.”
― Lee Vickers, Bodies of Light

“Many don’t realize that you can really use just about anything as a mantra as long as it brings good energy to one.”
― Lee Vickers, Bodies of Light

“You really have to get the idea that the words have a positive,”
― Lee Vickers, Bodies of Light

“Understand that a mantra is a positive statement that is said over and over again during your meditation.”
― Lee Vickers, Bodies of Light