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The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.

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"Love is being stupid together."

- Paul Valéry

Love

""Love is being stupid together.""

- Paul Valéry

Love

"The purpose of psychology is to give us a completely different idea of the things we know best."

- Paul Valéry

Awareness

"An artist never really finishes his work; he merely abandons it."

- Paul Valéry

Inspiration

"The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us."

- Paul Valéry

Philosophy

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"It is at the moment of death that humanity has value."

- Archer

Philosophy

"Religion, ideology, resources, land, spite, love or just because… No matter how pathetic the reason, it’s enough to start a war. War will never cease to exist… reasons can be thought up after the fact… Human nature pursues strife."

- Paine

Philosophy

"Christmas is a necessity. There has to be at least one day of the year to remind us that we’re here for something else besides ourselves."

- Eric Sevareid

Philosophy

"Maybe Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store. Maybe Christmas...perhaps...means a little bit more!"

- Theodor Seuss Geisel

Philosophy

"Christmas is built upon a beautiful and intentional paradox; that the birth of the homeless should be celebrated in every home."

- G.K. Chesterton

Philosophy