"I do not mean to imply that the good old days were perfect. But the institutions and structure--the web--of society needed reform,not demolition. To have cut the institutional and community strands without replacing them with new ones proved to be a form of abuse to one generation and to the next. For so many Americans, the tragedy was not in dreaming that life could be better; the tragedy was that the dreaming ended."

-- Richard Louv

#Change Quotes #Dream Quotes #Mean Quotes

“There is no other labor in all the world that brings to a human heart, judging from my own personal experience, more joy, peace and serenity than proclaiming the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ”
“Although the drama of games of strategy is strongly linked with the psychological aspects of the conflict, game theory is not concerned with these aspects. Game theory, so to speak, plays the board. It is concerned only with the logical aspects of strategy.”

Source : "The Use and Misuse of Game Theory". Scientific American, (p. 110), December 1962.
“Bisexuality is the proportional representation of sexuality in a world where most of us - straight or gay - operate a first-past-the-post system.”
“Sometimes we choose a friend who mirrors our fantasies, dreams of a self we wish we could be.”
“The music is the main thing and it's just as easy to write acceptable words.”
“I try and stay positive; being negative isn't good for my personality. I don't just bring myself down, I bring everyone around me down. It's like a dark cloud, 'Uh oh, here we go,' and have to snap out of it.”
“Never judge a philosophy by its abuse.”
“I recommend Doug Sweeney's recent book [Jonathan] Edwards the Exegete (Oxford University Press, 2015), which is a terrific treatment of the way in which Edwards was steeped in the Bible, so that it shaped the whole of his thinking.”

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