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  • I believe that our Heavenly Father invented man because he was disappointed in the monkey. I believe that whenever a human being, of even the highest intelligence and culture, delivers an opinion upon a matter apart from his particular and especial line of interest, training and experience, it will always be an opinion of so foolish and so valueless a sort that it can be depended upon to suggest to our Heavenly Father that the human being is another disappointment and that he is no considerable improvement upon the monkey.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Disappointment Quotes , Father Quotes
  • Its [Dreams from My Father] also a reflection about how we might start a better conversation in our democracy about how to solve problems, because it feels as if our political system - it just seems there is so much cynicism and negativity in our politics.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Barack Obama Quotes , Dream Quotes , Father Quotes
  • O, heavenly Father: we thank thee for food and remember the hungry. We thank thee for health and remember the sick. We thank thee for friends and remember the friendless. We thank thee for freedom and remember the enslaved. May these remembrances stir us to service, That thy gifts to us may be used for others. Amen.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Abigail Van Buren Quotes , Father Quotes , Sick Quotes
  • Descartes is rightly regarded as the father of modern philosophy primarily and generally because he helped the faculty of reason to stand on its own feet by teaching men to use their brains in place whereof the Bible, on the one hand, and Aristotle, on the other, had previously served.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes , Father Quotes , Philosophy Quotes
  • Aristotle can be regarded as the father of logic. But his logic is too scholastic, full of subtleties, and fundamentally has not been of much value to the human understanding. It is a dialectic and an organon for the art of disputation.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Immanuel Kant Quotes , Art Quotes , Father Quotes
  • The truth was that Jay Gatsby, of West Egg, Long Island, sprang from his Platonic conception of himself. He was a son of God—a phrase which, if it means anything, means just that—and he must be about His Father’s Business, the service of a vast, vulgar and meretricious beauty.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Father Quotes , Mean Quotes