"Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy."

-- Ayn Rand

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“Do I look like the kind of person who gives a ****”
“We live in a society of social networks, with Twitter pages and Facebook, and thatâ€™s fine, but we have contact with our work associates, our family, our friends, and it seems like half the time we are more preoccupied with our phone and other things going on instead of the actual relationships that we have right in front of us.Â Hopefully, people can learn from this and try to actually help if someone is battling something deeper on the inside than what they are revealing on a day-to-day basis.”

Source : "Early Lead Brady Quinn on Jovan Belcher tragedy: An eloquent moment for Chiefs QB" by Cindy Boren, www.washingtonpost.com. December 3, 2012.
“Wait until you see him up on a horse”
“What demon is our god? What name subsumes That act external to our sleeping selves? Not pleasure it is much too broad and narrow , Not sex, not for the moment love, but pride, And not in prowess, but pride undefined, Autonomous in its unthought demands, A bit of vanity, but mostly pride.”

Source : "In a Few Days Now When Two Memories Meet (1964)". "Poems Of J.V. Cunningham". Book edited by Timothy Steele, 1997.
“Then came the choreography... the impact of music and choreography tends to really emphasize an overall feeling of what you really want out of the program.”
“Own your words. Your words are the maps to your intentions.”
“Without troublesome work, no one can have any concrete, full idea of what pure mathematical research is like or of the profusion of insights that can be obtained from it.”

Source : Edmund Husserl, Peter McCormick, Frederick Elliston (1981). “Husserl, shorter works”, Univ of Notre Dame Pr
“If the state - and within the state, the judiciary particularly - harasses and undermines the Church , in any society the state undoes itself.”

Source : Russell Kirk (1986). “The Assault on religion: commentaries on the decline of religious liberty”, Univ Pr of Amer

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