7Do not attempt to conquer the world with force. Force yields only resistance. 8True power comes from persuading the conquered that they have embraced The Way of their own free will.
“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”
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“Why did God have to give someone a recipe for two types of éclairs?”
― Murder at the Book Fair
― Murder at the Book Fair
“I am opposed to Socialism because of its inhumanity; because it saps the vitality of the human race which has no vitality to spare; because it lulls to indolence those who must struggle to survive; because the theories of good men who are enthralled by its delusions are made the excuse of the wicked who would rather plunder than work; because it stops enterprise, promotes laziness, exalts inefficiency, inspires hatred, checks production, assures waste and instills into the souls of the unfortunate and the weak hopes impossible of fruition whose inevitable blasting will add to the bitterness of their lot.”
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“It’s only after you’ve stepped outside your comfort zone that you begin to change, grow, and transform.”
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“The delightful irony of all this is that if we for a moment (but only for a moment) adopt the New Atheists’ definition of faith as blind belief, then their atheism seems in prime position to be the only true faith around.”
― Gunning for God: Why the New Atheists are missing the target
― Gunning for God: Why the New Atheists are missing the target
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