Michael McCune

“It is a contradiction in terms and ideas, to call anything a revelation that comes to us at second-hand, either verbally or in writing. Revelation is necessarily limited to the first communication; after this, it is only an account of something which that person says was a revelation made to him; and though he may find himself obliged to believe it, it cannot be incumbent on me to believe it in the same manner; for it was not a revelation made to me, and I have only his word for it that it was made to him.”
― Thomas Paine, Age of Reason: Being an Investigation of the True and Fabulous Theology

“The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.”
― James Baldwin

“Even though my brothers do me just like that, I get a lot of love so I'm giving it back”
― Too $hort

“Another possibility, given the strategic and commercial importance of Troy, perched as she was on the Dardanelles Strait, the Hellespont, is that some kind of conflict over tariffs and the passage of commerce erupted between the kingdoms of the western and eastern Aegean. Hard for us to credit it, so sophisticated and wise are we today. But back then, the primitive fools could find themselves sucked into trade wars. Ha!”
― Stephen Fry