"The modern state does not comprehend how anyone can be guided by something other than itself. In its eyes pluralism is treason."

-- Richard M. Weaver

#Eye Quotes #Pluralism Quotes #Doe Quotes

“Once you have learned to trust your own voice and allowed that creative force inside you to come out, you can direct it to write short stories, novels, and poetry, do revisions, and so on. You have the basic tool to fulfill your writing dreams. But beware. This type of writing will uncover other dreams you have, too-going to Tibet, being the first woman president of the United States, building a solar studio in New Mexico-and they will be in black and white. It will be harder to avoid them.”
“My own ongoing research among secular Americans-as well as that of a handful of other social scientists who have only recently turned their gaze on secular culture-confirms that nonreligious family life is replete with its own sustaining moral values and enriching ethical precepts.”

Source : "Do Godless Kids Turn Out All Right?" by Steve Mazie, bigthink.com.
“Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for”

Source : David Starr Jordan (1896). “The Care and Culture of Men: A Series of Addresses on the Higher Education”
“I guess you could say, I'm just a typical Methodist kid at heart.”
“I have turned my entire attention to Greek. The first thing I shall do, as soon as the money arrives, is to buy some Greek authors; after that, I shall buy clothes.”
“The way we teach is a very linear kind of way.”
“Wild as man was, and disgusting as the more degraded tribes and communities were, the best of them, and all those from which further advance came, were marked by good qualities, or they could never have risen to a higher stage.”
“Sometimes I think you just have to trust that the things you're doing make sense, instead of sitting down and analyzing this and that and, "Well, I read Paul-Michel Foucault saying..." The world and the universe have a way of resolving themselves eloquently, I think, if you're doing the right things.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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