"A few suits of clothes, some money in the bank, and a new kind of fear constitute the main differences between the average American today and the hairy men with clubs who accompanied Attila to the city of Rome."

-- Philip Wylie

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“Materialism is incomplete even as a theory of the physical world, since the physical world includes conscious organisms among its most striking occupants.”

Source : Thomas Nagel (2012). “Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature Is Almost Certainly False”, p.39, Oxford University Press
“But in the east the sky was pale and through the gray woods came lanterns with wagons and horses, bringing Grandpa and Grandma and aunts and uncles and cousins.”
“One child, one teacher, one book, one pen can change the world.”
“But a day must come when the fire of youth will be quenched in my veins, when winter will dwell in my heart, when his snow flakes will whiten my locks, and his mists will dim my eyes. Then my friends will lie in their lonely grave, and I alone will remain like a solitary stalk forgotten by the reaper.”
“My book should smell of pines and resound with the hum of insects.”
“If you sit down with me, I guarantee I will accept any terms you offer for a contract.”
“It should be our endeavor to cultivate the peace and friendship of every nation . . . . Our interest will be to throw open the doors of commerce, and to knock off all its shackles, giving perfect freedom to all persons for the vent to whatever they may choose to bring into our ports, and asking the same in theirs.”
“Our plate is full. We have a lot to do building our company organically and that is our key focus.”

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