Monday, July 08, 2024

Some Thoughts for Our Times

 "We tell ourselves stories in order to live."

- Joan Didion

"The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that's the way to bet."

- Damon Runyan

"Miami is a melting pot in which none of the stones melt. They rattle around."

- Tom Wolfe

"Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other views."

- William F. Buckley, Jr.

"The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency - the belief that the here and now is all there is."

- Allan Bloom

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