"To understand a philosopher requires a philosopher."

-- Horace Bushnell

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“The state owned monopolies are among the greatest millstones round the neck of the economy...Liberals must stress at all times the virtues of the market, not only for efficiency but to enable the widest possible choice...Much of what Mrs Thatcher and Sir Keith Joseph say and do is in the mainstream of liberal philosophy.”

Source : "The Future of Liberalism: The Inaugural Eighty Club Lecture". Book by Jo Grimond, 1980.
“I'm working on a snow scene right now, and it's summer. It's hot, and I will get chilly. I'll have to turn on the heat. My wife walks in, and it's 95 degrees in the studio. I know it's nutty, but it's a projection you have where you step into the painting.”
“Children should not be coddled in their intellectual training any more than in their physical; and though the studies should be made interesting the interest should arise out of the studies themselves. We have bred a generation that cannot digest anything intellectual but tablets of peptonized food. One sees that in the popular papers with their brevity, still increasing in brevity as far as brevity can increase, and in the capacity for thought of our rulers.”

Source : Arthur Lynch (1921). “Moods of Life: Popular Psychological Studies of Affairs of Every Day”
“There is heat in freezing...be a testament!”
“Do you want a happy heart when you are old? Then get with the Lord and stay with Him. That is how it works.”
“She laughed and danced with the thought of death in her heart.”
“It is human nature that rules the world, not governments and regimes.”

Source : "Some Say Stalin's Daughter Grew Unhappy In The West" by Robert D. Mcfadden, www.nytimes.com. November 3, 1984.
“In the consciousness of the end is the limitation of the moment.”

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