"When the safety of America is threatened, we will spend any amount of money. The real safety of our nation is preparing this next generation so that they can take our place [in] thinking and technology and democracy."

-- Geoffrey Canada

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“Women take clothing much more seriously than men. I've never seen a man walk into a party and say "Oh, my God, I'm so embarrassed; get me out of here. There's another man wearing a black tuxedo.”
“I'm hardly Hollywood material - they're interested in youth and perfection and I lay no claims to either. It's not a place that's particularly interested in talent.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The period of Catholic ascendancy was on the whole one of the most deplorable in the history of the human mind. . . . The spirit that shrinks from enquiry as sinful and deems a state of doubt a state of guilt, is the most enduring disease that can afflict the mind of man. Not till the education of Europe passed from the monasteries to the universities, not till Mohammedan science, and classical free thought, and industrial independence broke the sceptre of the Church, did the intellectual revival of Europe begin.”
“Journalism can go right up to the door of the room in which the decisions are made. A novel can go inside the room - and inside the character's heads.”
“The circulation of capital realizes value , while living labour creates value .”
“Love of another is merely empty flattery and self-deception for one who cannot accept himself without pretense.”

Source : L. E. Modesitt, Jr. (2010). “The Magic of Recluce”, p.378, Macmillan
“There is too much theology in the Church now, and too little of the Gospel.”
“The means of many outweigh the means of the few or one.”

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