"There can be no autonomous agent with unitary interests called 'society' that exerts causal influence. This is a logical impossibility"

-- David Buss

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“You know what’s really good is a greyhound in the shower.”
“I think women who lead full lives are better mothers.”
“Gilbert Jonas, painter, believed in his star.... His own faith was not, however, without its virtues because it consisted in admitting, in some obscure way, that he would obtain many things without deserving them.”
“Well, harpsichord is kind of a big guitar, isn't it? I mean, it is plucked, after all.”
“We all have memories that are malleable and susceptible to being contaminated or supplemented in some way.”

Source : "I Could Have Sworn …". Interview with Alison George, www.slate.com. September 8, 2013.
“Advent's intention is to awaken the most profound and basic emotional memory within us, namely, the memory of the God who became a child. This is a healing memory; it brings hope. The purpose of the Church's year is continually to rehearse her great history of memories, to awaken the heart's memory so that it can discern the star of hope...”
“The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.”
“Art is expression; what is expressed is often the vision of a subtle and powerful soul, and also his experience with his vision; and however vivid and skilful he may be in the means of expression, yet it is frequently found that the master-spell in his work is something felt to be indefinable and inexpressible.”

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