Religion has much less to do with morality than it does with salvation.

- bakiwop

“We are not what we believe.”

- Derek Parfit

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.

-Theodor Seuss Geisel

Goldman Sachs’s Griffiths Says Pay ‘Inequality’ Helps Everyone

A Goldman Sachs International adviser defended compensation in the finance industry as his company plans a near-record year for pay, saying the spending will help boost the economy.

“We have to tolerate the inequality as a way to achieve greater prosperity and opportunity for all,” Brian Griffiths, who was a special adviser to former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, said yesterday at a panel discussion hosted by St. Paul’s Cathedral in London. The panel’s discussion topic was, “What is the price of morality in the marketplace?”

How interesting that the man – John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton, KCVO, DL, known as Sir John Dalberg-Acton, 8th Bt – who said, “Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely,” believed in an omnipotent christian god.

“Continuous effort – not strength or intelligence – is the key to unlocking our potential.”

- Sir Winston Churchill

“We still have a large number of miserable, hungry people and this contributes to world instability. Human misery is explosive, and you better not forget that.”

- Norman Borlaug, May 2006, the Asian Development Bank forum in the Philippines.

“No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.”

- either Voltaire or Stanislaw J. Lec.

“When I was a kid, I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realized that the Lord, in his wisdom, didn’t work that way. So I just stole one and asked him to forgive me.”

– Emo Phillips

“I find it interesting that some of the people who are so into personal responsibility are among the same people who are so into celebrating Jesus dying for their sins.”

- bakiwop

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