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States are more like people than they are like anything else: they exist by purpose, reason, suffering, and joy. And peace between…
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Architecture, like dress, is an exercise in good manners, and good manners involve the habit of skillful insincerity - the habit of…
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Sanctions make a substantial contribution to power based on privation, and they have never hurt a single despot in the whole history…
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There’s a real question as to what beauty is and why it’s important to us. Many pseudo-philosophers try to answer these questions…
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State solutions are imposed from above; they are often without corrective devices, and cannot easily be reversed on the proof of failure.…
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Beauty is assailed from two directions - by the cult of ugliness in the arts, and by the cult of utility in…
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The conservative response to modernity is to embrace it, but to embrace it critically, in full consciousness that human achievements are rare…
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The culture of a civilization is the art and literature through which it rises to consciousness of itself and defines its vision…
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The abstract, unreal freedom of the liberal intellect was really nothing more than childish disobedience, amplified into anarchy.
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In argument about moral problems, relativism is the first refuge of the scoundrel.
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Beauty is vanishing from our world because we live as though it does not matter.
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Private property is one of the best institutions which has ever evolved, to protect us from the bullying of others.
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If there were nothing else to trouble us, the fate of the flowers would make us sad.
— John Lancaster Spalding
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The pleasures of the world are deceitful; they promise more than they give. They trouble us in seeking them, they do not…
— Anne-Therese de Marguenat de Courcelles
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There is no better time than the autumn to begin forgetting the things that trouble us, allowing them to fall away like…
— Paulo Coelho
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My favourite mentor brother told me that there were three kinds of people: followers, leaders and scouts. Scouts are capeable of leadership,…
— Isobelle Carmody
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Does God ask us to do what is beneath us? This question will never trouble us again if we consider the Lord…
— Elisabeth Elliot
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Our afflictions would trouble us much less if we knew God's reason for sending them.
— Billy Graham
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In a thousand years we shall all forget The things that trouble us now.
— Adam Lindsay Gordon
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Art and music shine a light of meaning on ordinary life, and through them we are able to confront the things that…
— Roger Scruton
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Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows…
— Herman Melville
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Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end.…
— William Hazlitt
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If the human race develops an electronic nervous system, outside the bodies of individual people, thus giving us all one mind and…
— Alan Watts
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It is not the actions of others which trouble us (for those actions are controlled by their governing part), but rather it…
— Marcus Aurelius
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