Mccluskys Quotes & Sayings

I was learning that if I lived slightly in the future-what will happen next-I didn't have to feel so much about what was going on in the present. — Augusten Burroughs

We must hold the Bible in one hand and the newspaper in the other. — Karl Barth

By all that is sacred in our hope for the human race, I conjure those who love happiness and truth to give a fair trial to the vegetable system! — Percy Bysshe Shelley

With every six heads sixty enemies are produced and for every sixty six hundred are produced and then six thousand and then six million, the whole country, God damn it, we'll never end, — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

I think a blog to live really has to be probably four or five times a day. — Andrew Sullivan

The evidence of [the] natural right [of expatriation], like that of our right to life, liberty, the use of our faculties, the pursuit of happiness, is not left to the feeble and sophistical investigations of reason, but is impressed on the sense of every man. We do not claim these under the charters of kings or legislators, but under the King of Kings. — Thomas Jefferson

It is possible to enjoy the Mozart concerto without being able to play the clarinet. In fact, you can learn to be an expert connoisseur of music without being able to play a note on any instrument. Of course, music would come to a halt if nobody ever learned to play it. But if everybody grew up thinking that music was synonymous with playing it, think how relatively impoverished many lives would be. Couldn't we learn to think of science in the same way? — Richard Dawkins

Evolution is the creation-myth of our age. By telling us our origin it shapes our views of what we are. It influences not just our thought, but our feelings and actions too, in a way which goes far beyond its official function as a biological theory. — Mary Midgley

One of the key issues will be personal honour vs. the good of the many, and unforeseen consequences. — Raymond E. Feist

Now I know from this very word and deed of yours what free choice is and is capable of, namely, madness. — Martin Luther