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A collection of quotes.

The great omission in American life is solitude… that zone of time and space, free from the outside pressures, which is the incinerator of the spirit. -Marya Mannes

“My knowledge of that life is small, The eye of faith is dim; But it’s enough that Christ knows all, And I shall be with him.” – Richard [...]

Excerpt from Mere Christianity – C.S. Lewis

Some of us who seem quite nice people may, in fact, have made so little use of a good heredity and a good upbringing that we are really worse than those whom we regard as fiends.
Can we be quite so certain how we should have behaved if we had been saddled with the psychological outfit, [...]

Winston Churchill Quotes

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
There is no such thing as a good tax.
Some see private enterprise as a predatory target to be shot, others as a cow to be milked, but few are those who see it as a sturdy horse pulling the [...]

Summary of Some of Life’s Philosophies In a Nutshell

Solipsism
Nothing exists; Even if something exists, nothing can be known about it; Even if something could be known about it, knowledge about it can’t be communicated to others. – Gorgias (485-375 BC)
Solipsism is the idea that one can only know that one’s self exists and that anything outside the mind, such as the external word, [...]

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