"It is one of the truisms of politics that a conservative is often enough a former liberal who has been 'mugged by reality.'"

-- Frank Gaffney

#Reality Quotes #Conservative Quotes #Enough Quotes

“I couldn't portray a woman in all her natural loveliness... I haven't the skill. No one has. I must, therefore, create a new sort of beauty...”
“Growing up I wasnâ€™t sure I was female. As I grew further I wanted to be a lesbian but I wasnâ€™t sure I would meet even the most basic membership criteria (though eventually I created a â€˜femme dykeâ€™ persona that worked well for over fifteen years). It wasnâ€™t until my early twenties that I was sure of at least one thing: I was an artist. Quite an accomplishment for anyone assigned female at birth in a culture that calls only male artists â€˜greatâ€™.”
“Humans are addicted to the hope for a final reckoning, but intellectual humility requires that we resist the temptation to assume that tools of the kind we now have are in principle sufficient to understand the universe as a whole.”

Source : Thomas Nagel (2012). “Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature Is Almost Certainly False”, p.10, Oxford University Press
“And now the herald lark Left his ground-nest, high tow'ring to descry The morn's approach, and greet her with his song.”
“What could be better than walking down any street in any city and knowing you're the heavyweight champion of the world?”

Source : "Remembering the Brockton Blockbuster" by Thomas Hauser, www.nysun.com. September 14, 2005.
“I'll do something, get into some kind of work where talk don't count. Maybe I'll just be a mechanic in a shop. I don't know. I guess I don't care much. I just want to work and keep quiet. That's all I've got in mind.”
“What's right with America and what's right with Islam have a lot in common. At their highest levels, both worldviews reflect an enlightened recognition that all of humankind shares a common Creator - that we are, indeed, brothers and sisters.”
“The preppy lifestyle has gone global. We feel that our business has grown so well because preppy travels so well. It's all-American classic.”

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