A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.Ralph Waldo Emerson
The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.Henry David Thoreau
The fibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings of an instrument.Henry David Thoreau
Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.C. S. Lewis
Anthropomorphic animals, when taken out of narrative into actual visibility, always turn into buffoonery or nightmare.C. S. Lewis
The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.J. K. Rowling
Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.Blaise Pascal
Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.Blaise Pascal
Part of the core information that I've been purveying is that identity politics is a sick game. You don't play racial, ethnic, and gender identity games. The Left plays them on behalf of the oppressed, let's say, and the Right tends to play them on behalf of nationalism and ethnic pride. I think they're equally dangerous.Jordan Peterson
National security always matters, obviously. But the reality is that if you have an open door in your software for the good guys, the bad guys get in there, too.Tim Cook
