I don’t exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it.
~ J.D. Salinger
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Author Archives: Jasper John MacKay
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Wired Magazine – November 2007 Issue
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I started calling myself a genius to impress people, and I ended up being one.
~ Salvador Dali
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When a problem threatens to engulf you, there’s nothing like irrelevant detail to keep your head above water.
~ John le Carré
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A civilization is a social entity that manifests religious, political , legal, and customary uniformity over an extended period, and which confers on its members the benefits of socially accumulated knowledge.
~ Roger Scruton
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One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.
~ Salvador Dali
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The real reason people are conservatives is that they are attached to the things that they love, and want to preserve them from abuse and decay. They are attached to their family, their friends, their religion, and their immediate environment. They have made a lifelong distinction between the things that nourish and the things that threaten their security and peace of mind.
~ Roger Scruton
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There are moments which are made up of too much stuff for them to be lived at the time they occur.
~ John le Carré
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Know your true measurements and dress your mind accordingly.
~ J.D. Salinger
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A writer who says that there are no truths, or that all truth is ‘merely relative,’ is asking you not to believe him. So don’t.
~ Roger Scruton
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