Brett

“In its broadest term, religion says that there is an unseen order, and that our supreme good lies in rightful relations to it.”
― William James

“We understand how dangerous a mask can be. We all become what we pretend to be.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

“…since its founding fathers, the United States has always been torn between two traditions, the activist policies of Alexander Hamilton (1755–1804) and Thomas Jefferson’s (1743–1826) maxim that ‘the government that governs least, governs best’. With time and usual American pragmatism, this rivalry has been resolved by putting the Jeffersonians in charge of the rhetoric and the Hamiltonians in charge of policy. Erik Reinert (2007, 23)”
― Mariana Mazzucato, The Entrepreneurial State: Debunking Public vs. Private Sector Myths

“But I was beginning to learn that your life is a story told about you, not one that you tell.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down