In any age courage is the simple virtue needed for a human being to traverse the rocky road from infancy to maturity of personality. But in an age of anxiety, an age of her morality and personal isolation, courage is a sine qua non.
~ Rollo May
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In any age courage is the simple virtue needed for a human being to traverse the rocky road from infancy to maturity of personality. But in an age of anxiety, an age of her morality and personal isolation, courage is a sine qua non.
~ Rollo May
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The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.
~ Frank Lloyd Wright
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Thoughts left unsaid are never wasted.
~ Henry S. Haskins
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If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving.
~ James Baldwin
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The more democratic the world’s societies are, the more idiosyncratic they will be, and the more their economic rules will diverge. But that is exactly what businesses cannot tolerate — at least not under globalization. Money and goods must be able to move frictionlessly and efficiently across borders. This requires a uniform set of laws. Somehow, democracy is going to have to give way.
~ Christopher Caldwell
via This Maverick Thinker Is the Karl Marx of Our Time
published by The New York Times on November 28, 2024
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Art is a substitute for violence.
~ Rollo May
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Shave a gorilla and it would be almost impossible, at twenty paces, to distinguish him from a heavyweight champion of the world. Skin a chimpanzee, and it would take an autopsy to prove he was not a theologian.
~ H. L. Mencken
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The erotic thriller was practically invented to hold together audiences’s ugly, contradictory feelings about sex, bringing the craving for erotic encounter into conflict with the looming specter of AIDs and the perceived threat of empowered women.
~ Alexandra Kleeman via The New York Times
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Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet.
~ Mark Twain
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We know accurately only when we know little; doubt grows with knowledge.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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