"The road to the promised land runs past Sinai. The moral law may exist to be transcended: but there is no transcending it for those who have not first admitted its claims up on them, and then tried with all their strength to meet that claim, and fairly and squarely faced the fact of their failure."

-- C. S. Lewis

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“Whether it's destiny or fate or whatever, I don't think I could do a French Laundry anywhere else.”
“For me, a better democracy is a democracy where women do not only have the right to vote and to elect but to be elected.”
“An open mind but not an empty head.”

Source : Edward Tufte @EdwardTufte, twitter.com. August 12, 2015.
“It is not children only that one feeds with fairy tales.”

Source : "Nathan der Weise" by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, III, 6, 1779.
“The first of our senses which we should take care never to let rust through disuse is that sixth sense, the imagination. I mean the wide-open eye which leads us to see truth more vividly, to apprehend more broadly, to concern ourselves more deeply, to be, all our life long, sensitive and awake to the powers and responsibilities given to us as human beings.”
“If even one of these unidentified UFOs turns out to be an alien craft, the impact on all aspects of our nation's culture-economic, political, personal-will be limited only by what is learned from an open, serious, objective study of the subject.”
“The only real revolution is in the enlightenment of the mind and the improvement of character, the only real emancipation is individual, and the only real revolutionaries are philosophers and saints.”

Source : "The Lessons of History". Book by Will Durant and Ariel Durant, 1968.
“I win and succeed only 'cause I fail so much. I fail all the time. I wrote 70 songs just to have 12 good ones. For the video I shot 60 hours of footage. 60 hours! To come up with an 8 minute video. So really I only win 'cause I fail.”

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