"What riches give us let us then inquire: Meat, fire, and clothes. What more? Meat, clothes, and fire. Is this too little?"

-- Alexander Pope

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“I am an Armani and a Dolce & Gabbana kind of a person.”
“The word " philosophy " carries unfortunate connotations: impractical, unworldly, weird.”

Source : Simon Blackburn (1999). “Think: A Compelling Introduction to Philosophy”, p.6, Oxford University Press
“Sport is a universal language, building more bridges between people than anything else I can think of.”
“We need to ask ourselves a question: Do we trust God? Is he not the same yesterday, today, and forever? And if he is, then how is compromise a strategy? It's not a strategy, it's wholesale surrender.”
“Mysticism is the art of union with Reality.”
“I have tried, with little success, to get some of my friends to understand my amazement that the abstraction of integers for counting is both possible and useful. Is it not remarkable that 6 sheep plus 7 sheep makes 13 sheep; that 6 stones plus 7 stones make 13 stones? Is it not a miracle that the universe is so constructed that such a simple abstraction as a number is possible? To me this is one of the strongest examples of the unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics. Indeed, I find it both strange and unexplainable.”
“The forms of the short, written poem as they have been developed in English over the past few centuries can be usefully seen as compressed, truncated, or fragmented imitations of other verbal forms, especially the play, story, public oration, and personal essay.”
“I hate Disneyland. It primes our kids for Las Vegas.”

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