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The terrible error in the course of human civilization is undoubtedly the defective judgment that allowed religious authorities usurp the foundation of societal morality, in which all collective ethics of humankind must take a cause. This appalling blunder is comparable only to assigning the leper exclusive franchise to run beauty clinics in the society; this can only lead to cycles upon cycles of common infection syndrome. ↗

— Adebowale Ojowuro

#ethics-and-moral-philosophy #freethought #new-book #religion #scepticism

A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts. ↗

— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

#contacts #happy #happy childhood #human #poor

It is simply economically impossible to require controls that even approach zero emissions. ↗

— Barry Commoner

#controls #economically #emissions #even #impossible

I do better singing female songs because my voice is so high-pitched. ↗

— Chris Colfer

#better #female #i #i do #singing

I remember once, we got an interview, and he said, 'Dad, these people are writing about me like I'm an adult. Don't they know I'm a kid?' I have never tried to encourage him to get a music image like other musicians have. ↗

— Ornette Coleman

#adult #dad #encourage #get #got

I think that those elements - light and sound - are beyond democratic. They're into the creative part of life. ↗

— Ornette Coleman

#creative #democratic #elements #i #i think

I'm having this conversation with you now. I'm talking, but I'm thinking, feeling, smelling, and moving. Yet I'm concentrating on what you're saying. So that means there's more things going on in the body than just the present thing that the person's got you doing. ↗

— Ornette Coleman

#concentrating #conversation #doing #feeling #going

I didn't want to start acting like a cartoon. ↗

— Rachael Leigh Cook

#cartoon #i #like #start #want

I've never had a relationship with a record executive. I always went to the record company by someone that liked my playing. Then they would get fired, and I'd be left with the record company. And then - because they got fired - the record company wouldn't do anything for me. ↗

— Ornette Coleman

#anything #because #company #executive #fired

Jazz is the only music in which the same note can be played night after night but differently each time. ↗

— Ornette Coleman

#differently #each #jazz #music #night