"Most of the ladies and gentlemen who mourn the passing of the nation's leaders wouldn't know a leader if they saw one. If they had the bad luck to come across a leader, they would find out that he might demand something from them, and this impertinence would put an abrupt and indignant end to their wish for his return."

-- Lewis H. Lapham

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“The evolutionary explanation for origins, although impossible either to prove or to test scientifically, is nevertheless defended by its proponents on the basis that it is the only explanation which is naturalistic, not involving the 'supernatural' element of a divine Creator.”
“I suspect that most of the individuals who have religious faith are content with blind faith”

Source : "A Second Look in the Rearview Mirror: Further Autobiographical Reflections of a Philosopher at Large".
“Others find humanity by looking in their own hearts. Only lost souls need to search for it outside themselves.”
“My mom and I have always had issues.”
“At present we are on the outside of the world, the wrong side of the door. We discern the freshness and purity of morning, but they do not make us fresh and pure. We cannot mingle with the splendours we see. But all the leaves of the New Testament are rustling with the rumour that it will not always be so. Some day, God willing, we shall get in.”
“Quick music sounds dull unless every note is articulated.”

Source : Herbert von Karajan, Richard Osborne (1989). “Conversations with Karajan”
“I had just put the casket in the hearse and was watching it drive away, when a beautiful blond woman comes up and embraces me. I said to her, 'You have a drink on you? You have a car?' She said, 'Daddy, it's me â€” Tatum!' I was just trying to be funny with a strange Swedish woman, and it's my daughter. It's so sick.”
“I've been living a lie all my life.”

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