"The emancipation of the scholars and scientists from philosophy is according to [Nietzsche] only a part of the democratic movement, i.e. of the emancipation of the low from subordination to the high. ... The plebeian character of the contemporary scholar or scientist is due to the fact that he has no reverence for himself."

-- Leo Strauss

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“Ecology is the new theology; big history is the new Genesis. Those who fail to understand that evidence is modern-day scripture, and that the world we live in is an honorable world, betray God and humanity in the most egregious of ways.”
“High tax rates are followed by attempts of ingenious men to beat them as surely as surely as snow is followed by little boys on sleds.”
“Suddenly she realized that what she was regretting was not the lost past but the lost future, not what had not been but what would never be.”

Source : F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.1469, e-artnow
“I don't have stylistic loyalty. That's why people perceive me changing all the time. But there is a real continuity in my subject matter. As an artist of artifice, I do believe I have more integrity than any one of my contemporaries.”
“I was consumed by my love for Chris Colfer, and I just couldn't hold it in any longer.”
“Once I'm done, I'm done. I'm going to California,”

Source : "Rob Ford tape - full text: Toronto's Mayor at an Etobicoke bar disparaging Karen Stintz, Tim Hudak and Italians". Transcript of an audio tape, nationalpost.com. April 30, 2014.
“To work for the common good is the greatest creed.”
“The trouble with having a place for everything is how often it gets filled up with everything else.”

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