"Lord Bath used to say of women, who are apt to say that they will follow their own judgment, that they could not follow a worse guide."

-- Horace Walpole

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“The most terrifying fact about the universe is not that it is hostile but that it is indifferent, but if we can come to terms with this indifference, then our existence as a species can have genuine meaning. However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.”

Source : Interview with Eric Nordern, Playboy, September 1968.
“If you have a problem I find keeping it a secret makes it so much stronger.”
“For the world is movement, and you cannot be stationary in your attitude toward something that is moving.”
“We have to change economic policy: create confidence, foster investment, cut the public deficit, restructure taxation and reform the labor laws.”

Source : "Will Spain Be the Next Greece?". Interview with Lalli Weymouth, www.slate.com. October 28, 2011.
“None in this age will amass wealth except those having five traits ofcharacter. High hopes; abnormal greediness; excessive miserliness, lack of fearing Allaah; and forgetfulness of the coming world.”
“In mindfulness one is not only restful and happy, but alert and awake. Meditation is not evasion; it is a serene encounter with reality.”
“In Manhattan, marriage is a trend. Couples kiss over their arugula and radicchio salads. They fondle each other's genitals while devouring their pasta puttanesca. By the time the tiramisu arrives, they've slid under the table.”
“To show that there are natural processes that produce religious belief does nothing, so far, to discredit it; perhaps God designed us in such a way that it is by virtue of those processes that we come to have knowledge of him.”

Source : Alvin Plantinga (2000). “Warranted Christian Belief”, p.167, Oxford University Press

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