"I often think . . . that the bookstores that will save civilization are not online, nor on campuses, nor named Borders, Barnes & Noble, Dalton, or Crown. They are the used bookstores, in which, for a couple of hundred dollars, one can still find, with some diligence, the essential books of our culture, from the Bible and Shakespeare to Plato, Augustine, and Pascal."

-- James V. Schall

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“When you start thinking about taking pictures, sending an e-mail, receiving an e-mail, speaking into your phone and have it transcript voice into text and then sent as an e-mail, it's mind-boggling.”
“First, philosophy concerns itself with all kinds of issues that don't get much airtime in day-to-day life. What's the nature of reality? Can we ever truly know anything, and if so, how? What does it mean to be a moral agent? And while we're at it, is there any such thing as agency anyway?”
“I learned that in dealing with things, you spent much more time and energy in dealing with people than in dealing with things.”
“Come, let us give a little time to folly... and even in a melancholy day let us find time for an hour of pleasure.”
“Many in local government will ask why should only a few areas have the freedoms and benefits of Enterprise Zone status while the majority lose out?”

Source : "The budget: we pick the key points for local authorities" by Andy Sawford, www.theguardian.com. March 23, 2011.
“My advice to all new writers - male or female - it isn't easy, but forge ahead and be true to your originality.”
“Emotion may be expressed, or the utter lack of it may be expressed, but the only important fact is that of expression.”
“When you envision yourself doing something, you'll be surprised at how much that helps you to actually do it.”

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