"Astronomy was born of superstition; eloquence of ambition, hatred, falsehood, and flattery; geometry of avarice; physics of an idle curiosity; and even moral philosophy of human pride. Thus the arts and sciences owe their birth to our vices."

-- Jean-Baptiste Rousseau

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“Once a man sees what is possible, and makes just a few changes, a whole new world opens up where he finds opportunities that he couldn’t see before.”

Source : "A Dead Bat in Paraguay: One Man's Peculiar Journey Through South America". Book by Roosh V, July 12, 2009.
“Men are thinking, writing, and creating, because women were pouring their energy into those men; women are not creating culture because they are occupied with love.”

Source : SHULAMITH FIRESTONE (1970). “THE DIALECTIC OF SEX”
“Darkness had fallen upon everything for him; but just because of this darkness he felt that the one guiding clue in the darkness was his work, and he clutched it and clung to it with all his strength.”
“Nobody believes the official spokesman... but everybody trusts an unidentified source.”

Source : Ron Nessen (2011). “Making the News, Taking the News: From NBC to the Ford White House”, p.178, Wesleyan University Press
“It may be that the invention of the aeroplane flying-machine will be deemed to have been of less material value to the world than the discovery of Bessemer and open-hearth steel, or the perfection of the telegraph, or the introduction of new and more scientific methods in the management of our great industrial works. To us, however, the conquest of the air, to use a hackneyed phrase, is a technical triumph so dramatic and so amazing that it overshadows in importance every feat that the inventor has accomplished.”
“The function of the Short Story is to be interesting, to convey vivid impressions, an therefore it must, to a degree, work with the evident and superficial thing”
“A good photograph will prove to the viewer how little our eyes permit us to see. Most people, really, donâ€™t see-see only what they have always seen and what they expect to see-where a photographer, if heâ€™s good, will see everything. And better if he sees things he doesnâ€™t expect to see.”
“For the sake of the Gospel, it was worth itâ€¦ All you have to do is look at any society where there is no Jesus. Iâ€™ll give you four: Nazis, no Jesus. Look at their record. Uh, Shintos? They started this thing in Pearl Harbor. Any Jesus among them? None. Communists? None. Islamists? Zero. Thatâ€™s eighty years of ideologies that have popped up where no Jesus was allowed among those four groups. Just look at the records as far as murder goes among those four groups.”

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