Bross Quotes & Sayings

The Chinese sage Mencius made the analogy between morality and food 2,300 years ago when he wrote that "moral principles please our minds as beef and mutton and pork please our mouths."4 In this chapter and the next two, I'll develop the analogy that the righteous mind is like a tongue with six taste receptors. In this analogy, morality is like cuisine: it's a cultural construction, influenced by accidents of environment and history, but it's not so flexible that anything goes. You can't have a cuisine based on tree bark, nor can you have one based primarily on bitter tastes. Cuisines vary, but they all must please tongues equipped with the same five taste receptors.5 Moral matrices vary, but they all must please righteous minds equipped with the same six social receptors. — Jonathan Haidt

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Oh good," Amos replied. "Somebody got killed there. That's how we claim stuff, you know. This planet is officially ours now. — James S.A. Corey

Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith. — Mahatma Gandhi

I have often thought that nothing would do more extensive good at small expense than the establishment of a small circulating library in every county, to consist of a few well-chosen books, to be lent to the people of the country under regulations as would secure their safe return in due time. — Thomas Jefferson

The voice of silence speaks clearly in those moments, and you can ask it to speak anytime you want. In time it will become the voice you trust more than anything else. — Deepak Chopra

But oh! as to embrace me she inclin'd, I wak'd, she fled, and day brought back my night. — John Milton

I've hit the Pick 6 for a hundred thousand a couple of times. A few more for 60, 70 thousand. — Dick Van Patten

I swore we'd never be together, but - '
'Your inner whore would not be denied.' she finished. — MaryJanice Davidson

Any factual errors that remain are entirely the fault of Bob, who snuck into the offices at DAW to try to sabotage my book. I hate that guy. — Jim C. Hines

Buddhism has always been a religion for people who've worked their way through a cycle of materialism and still feel discontented and want more, or have questions that their state of prosperity is not answering. — Pankaj Mishra

A Christian should use these arts to the glory of God, not just as tracts, mind you, but as things of beauty to the praise of God. An art work can be a doxology in itself. — Francis A. Schaeffer

The first CD that I ever bought was 'Britney Spears.' It was at a 7-Eleven and I was like, 'Can I get this?' It was literally her EP and I picked it up and, of course, I fell in love with her. It was an early crush for me. — Joe Jonas