"The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism."

Society, Intelligence, Knowledge, Fact, Mind

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"The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism."

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"Though the earth contains greater energy and mass than any single being, linked together, "people make the world go-round"."

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"Society has a herd psychology, so until we have more good shepherds we are lost."

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"Why have your followers all drawn their swords, may I ask?" said Aslan."May it please Your High Majesty," said the second Mouse, whose name was Peepiceek, "we are all waiting to cut off our own tails if our Chief must go without his. We will not bear the shame of wearing an honor which is denied to the High Mouse.""Ah!" roared Aslan. "You have conquered me. You have great hearts. Not for the sake of your dignity, Reepicheep, but for the love that is between you and your people, and still more for the kindness your people showed me long ago when you ate away the cords that bound me on the Stone Table (and it was then, though you have long forgotten it, that you began to be Talking Mice), you shall have your tail again."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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"The morals of societies are defined by how they treat a strange woman."

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"If God fairness, impartiality, equity, are his essence, that should become dominant in any society."

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"I realize that they giggle and I actually laugh, that they show their cleavage and I have none to show, but just so you know, I am also a girl. I'm one of the three wise MEN. And it's gay to think that James Bond is hot."

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"The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal."

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"We are living in glorious days where each readers' voice can be heard."

Sara Sheridan, Scottish Author

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"If we in Nigeria and Africa generally are to experience a true national transformation, we must purposefully begin a campaign for national reorientation."

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"But facts abound to the affirmation that most Christians in my nation Nigeria and all around the world, would rather pray to God to come and fix their country than do something about it themselves."

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"In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer."

Wisdom

"There is something divine in mindless beauty, and Mersault was particularly responsive to it."

Beauty

"I don't know whether this world has a meaning that transcends it. But I know that I cannot know that meaning and that it is impossible for me just now to know it."

Philosophy

"Heroism is accessible. Happiness is more difficult."

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"Stupidity has a knack of getting its way, as we should see if we were not always so much wrapped up in ourselves."

Reality

"The world is always satisfied, it turns out, with countenance it can understand. Indolence and cowardice do the rest. Independence is earned by a few words of cheap confidence."

Society

"You cannot create experience. You must undergo it."

Life

"If we believe in nothing, if nothing has any meaning and if we can affirm no values whatsoever, then everything is possible and nothing has any importance."

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"There's the risk of being loved...and that would keep me from being happy."

Emotion

"It was in Spain that [my generation] learned that one can be right and yet be beaten, that force can vanquish spirit, that there are times when courage is not its own recompense. It is this, doubtless, which explains why so many, the world over, feel the Spanish drama as a personal tragedy."

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