"Religion is something people do together to face urgent problems and to resolve them by appealing to truths that seem self-evident to them."

“When we began Qualcomm, it had become quite clear that it was very important to patent new ideas.”

“Liberalism is the ideology of Western suicide.”

“The high intellectual value of images, however, lies in the fact that they usually, and perhaps always, fit more than one actual experience.”

“Is one of the fairest portions of the globe to remain in a state of nature, the haunt of a few wretched savages, when it seems destined by the Creator to give support to a large population and to be the seat of civilization?”

Source : "The History of Indiana, from Its Earliest Exploration by Europeans, to the Close of the Territorial Government, in 1816". Book by John Brown Dillon, www.esquire.com. 1859.

“Is it really true that political self-interest is nobler somehow than economic self-interest?”

“We got a right to climb out of the sewer and live like other people. We could start from scratch. Make every minute count twice for the one we lost.”

“We consider the beauty of nature and art with pleasure and satisfaction, without the slightest movement of desire. Instead, it appears to be a particular mark of beauty that it is considered with tranquil satisfaction; that it pleases if we also do not possess it and we are still far removed from demanding to possess it”

“She rose and followed her bust from the room.”