"A writer should not run around with a mirror for his countrymen; he should tell his society and his times things no one ever thought before."

-- Stanislaw Lem

#Running Quotes #Mirrors Quotes #Should Quotes

“There is no prize in sales for second place. It's win or nothing. The masters know this and strive for - they fight for - that winning edge.”
“Until we start thinking in terms of revolution instead of compromise the Church will continue to pat itself on the back with token steps of renewal.”
“Evolutionary game theory is a way of thinking about evolution at the phenotypic level when the fitnesses of particular phenotypes depend on their frequencies in the population.”

Source : John Maynard Smith (1982). “Evolution and the Theory of Games”, p.1, Cambridge University Press
“There's a vintage which comes with age and experience.”
“I think values are really, really important, but I also think that too many values are just words.”
“Everything in the phenomenal universe is straight line and circle. The horizon, our heads, arms, electrons, the oceans, planets and stars. Their principle function is to radiate. The task of the human being is also to radiate.”
“You have to expect spiritual warfare whenever you stand up for righteousness or call attention to basic values. It's just a matter of light battling the darkness. But the light wins every time. You can't throw enough darkness on light to put it out.”

Source : "A Beacon in the Night". Interview with William F. Jasper, www.thenewamerican.com. December 19, 2008.
“Man cannot live without joy; therefore when he is deprived of true spiritual joys it is necessary that he become addicted to carnal pleasures.”

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