Quotes

I call myself a cultural Christian. I’m not a believer, but there’s a distinction between being a believing Christian and being a cultural Christian. I love hymns and Christmas carols, and I sort of feel at home in the Christian ethos

-Richard Dawkins

Art takes the trauma and allows you to compartmentalize or even transmute that pain into something else

– Neko Case

Its not a war crime, the first time…

– Nation of Canada, who inspired many Geneva convention laws

Academia values the appearance of truth over actual truth

– Aaron Brown

Are we exclusionary? Absolutely.

-Mike Jeffries (former CEO of Abercrombie and Fitch)

In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies

-Winston Churchill

I am the heart of the city and its people; the marker that defines Emaar’s ambition and Dubai’s shining dream.

-Exerpt from the Burj Khalifa buildings foundation poem.

History is a tragedy, not a morality tale

– I. F. Stone

When goods don’t cross borders, soldiers will

When goods don’t cross borders, soldiers will

– Frédéric Bastiat

Looking backward fucks with your neck

-Gary Vaynerchuk

I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

– H. L. Mencken

No piece in a World Chess Champion set is harder to make than the knight, that alone takes 2 hours to hand carve each time.

-Business Insider

Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

-C.S. Lewis