"We desecrated the traditional values, but new values didn't come along."

-- Rocco Buttiglione

“I think that youth culture is now very deliberately designed by both corporate entities and by governments to not involve people directly. Because as soon as you involve people you have a small loss of control; and as soon as that happens, anything could happen.”
“The mind, by its very nature, persistently tries to live forever, resisting age and attempting to give itself a form... . When a person passes his prime and his life begins to lose true vigor and charm, his mind starts functioning as if it were another form of life; it imitates what life does, eventually doing what life cannot do.”
“Itâ€™s hard not to root for Henrik Lundqvist, heâ€™s practically perfect.”
“I have never understood why it is "greed" to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else's money.”
“Your thoughts and actions not only influence your mood, but the moods of all you cross paths with. Thinking lovingly. Do lovingly. Be a messenger for love.”
“If we decide rightly what to do, or use a correct procedure for making such decisions, that has to be because the decisions or the procedure rest on good reasons, and these reasons consist in the apprehension of truths about what we ought to do. Because these truths must constitute reasons for our decisions, and because in the rational order, reasons must always precede the decisions based on them, the truth conditions of claims about what we ought to cannot be reduced to, or constructed out of, decisions about what to do, or procedures for making such decisions.”
“The laws of biology are the fundamental lessons of history.”

Source : Will Durant, Ariel Durant (2012). “The Lessons of History”, p.3, Simon and Schuster
“There will always be survivors.”

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