"Scandal dies sooner of itself, than we could kill it."

-- Benjamin Rush

#Scandal Quotes

“I needed a break... from myself.”
“A person can find anything if he takes the time, that is, if he can afford to look. And while he's looking, he's free, and he finds things he never expected.”

Source : "Sommarboken". Book by Tove Jansson, 1972.
“I will never allow anyone to divide this people once more into religious camps, each fighting the other”
“If you're going to re-invent healthcare you have to start from scratch.”
“Self-judgment is how conditioned mind keeps control over your life.”
“What is art? (...) Like a declaration of love: the consciousness of our dependence on each other. A confession. An unconscious act that none the less reflects the true meaning of lifeâ€”love and sacrifice.”
“Imprisoning philosophy within the professionalizations and specializations of an institutionalized curriculum, after the manner of our contemporary European and North American culture, is arguably a good deal more effective in neutralizing its effects than either religious censorship or political terror”

Source : Alasdair MacIntyre (2007). “Edith Stein: A Philosophical Prologue, 1913-1922”, p.4, Rowman & Littlefield
“I may have been 15 or 16 years old when, on a Sunday morning, I was sitting at home together with my mother and sister, and the floor began to move under us. The hanging lamp swayed. It was very strange. My father came into the room. "It was an earthquake," he said. The center had evidently been at a considerable distance, for the movements felt slow and not shaky. In spite of a great deal of effort, an accurate epicenter was never found. This was my only experience with an earthquake until I became a seismologist 20 years later.”

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