National loyalty involves a love of home and a preparedness to defend it; nationalism is a belligerent ideology, which uses national symbols in order to conscript the people to war.
~ Roger Scruton
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Category Archives: 2358 – Quote Unquote
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As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
~ Toni Morrison
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Virtue never has been as respectable as money.
~ Mark Twain
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You want to make it to the top? There is no top. However high you climb, there is always somebody above you. Mailer wanted to be Hemingway, Hemingway wanted to be Joyce, and Joyce was painfully aware he’d never be another Shakespeare.
~ William Deresiewicz
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For some people, social media is inconsequential — a cat photo here, a banana slip TikTok there. For others, it’s all-consuming — a helpless catapult into a slurry of anxiety, self-harm and depression. To each his own internet.
~ Pamela Paul via The New York Times
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We do not need empirical evidence to convince us of the truth of something we already feel very deeply.
~ Dmitri J. O’Bannon
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This life of yours which you are living is not merely a piece of this entire existence, but in a certain sense the whole; only this whole is not so constituted that it can be surveyed in one single glance.
~ Erwin Schrödinger
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The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it’s conformity.
~ Rollo May
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Maybe not having time to think is not having the wish to think.
~ John Steinbeck
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Democratic civilization is the first in history to blame itself because another power is working to destroy it.
~ Jean-François Revel
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