"We cannot appreciate the art of any age without first acquiring an equivalent of the experience it depicts."

-- Jacques Barzun

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“If you believe in subjective morality, why do you lock your doors at night?”
“You discover how confounding the world is when you try to draw it. You look at a car, and you try to see its car-ness, and youâ€™re like an immigrant to your own world. You donâ€™t have to travel to encounter weirdness. You wake up to it.”
“You will ever remember that all the end of study is to make you a good man and a useful citizen.”
“I'd rather be wrong to set you free than be right to do you harm (162).”
“Things that seem incredibly different can really be manifestations of the same underlying phenomena.”
“I now add, farther, that the apostles argument is so far from proving it to be the duty of people to obey, and submit to, such rulers as act in contradiction to the public good, and so to the design of their office, that it proves the direct contrary.”

Source : Jonathan Mayhew (1969). “Sermons: Seven Sermons: A Discourse, Concerning the Unlimited Submission and Non-resistance to the Higher Powers. The Snare Broken”
“Success is knowing that one other human being has breathed a little easier because you lived.”
“Pretend that this is a time of miracles and we believe in them.”

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