Ideas are everywhere, but knowledge is rare.
~ Thomas Sowell
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Monthly Archives: August 2018
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Choose not to be harmed—and you won’t feel harmed. Don’t feel harmed—and you haven’t been.
~ Marcus Aurelius
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Conservatism is a philosophy of inheritance and stewardship; it does not squander resources but strives to enhance them and pass them on.
~ Roger Scruton
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I can be quite sarcastic when I’m in the mood.
~ J.D. Salinger
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Men who are afraid live longer.
~ Edmund Cooper
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The skeleton is of the utmost importance. It is always the structure which matters and is all that remains after death.
~ Salvador Dali
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The core of common culture is religion. Tribes survive and flourish because they have gods, who fuse many wills into a single will, and demand and reward the sacrifices on which social life depends.
~ Roger Scruton
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Without the background of a remembered faith modernism loses its conviction: it becomes routinised. For a long time now it has been assumed that there can be no authentic creation in the sphere of high art which is not is some way a ‘challenge’ to the ordinary public. Art must give offence, stepping out of the future fully armed against the bourgeois taste for kitsch and cliché. But the result of this is that offence becomes a cliché.
~ Roger Scruton
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