"The success of the West, including the rise of science, rested entirely on religious foundations, and the people who brought it about were devout Christians."

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Source : Rodney Stark (2007). “The Victory of Reason: How Christianity Led to Freedom, Capitalism, and Western Success”, p.10, Random House

Rodney Stark

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“The ultimate goal is to be more satisfied. I really don't believe you get wiser because you get older. It's a choice, perhaps not to take some things so seriously”
“I know a lot of people in Phoenix, so I've had some great nights there. It's always hot, too, so it's just a nice to be outside in the evening.”

Source : "Greg Rutherford: 'I ate sushi with Charlize Theron and Usher'". Interview With Nick McGrath, www.telegraph.co.uk. November 7, 2016.
“Beautiful forms and compositions are not made by chance, nor can they ever, in any material, be made at small expense. A composition for cheapness and not excellence of workmanship is the most frequent and certain cause of the rapid decay and entire destruction of arts and manufacturers.”
“I really think more fledgling novelists - and many current and even established novelists - should get out into the real world and cover local politics, sports, culture, and crime and write it up on deadline.”
“I always want to do music that inspires or influences another generation. You want what you create to live, be it sculpture or painting or music. Like Michelangelo, he said, â€œI know the creator will go, but his work survives. That is why to escape death, I attempt to bind my soul to my work.”
“does a society exist where it's become acceptable to wear 'helmets' enclosing one's entire head when in public to preempt social interaction”
“The car has become the carapace, the protective and aggressive shell, of urban and suburban man.”
“I made films from the - when I was a little kid, my father bought me a movie camera. I just wanted to. I don't know how. You just learn, you just do it. You just do it.”

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