Merici Model Quotes & Sayings

Buy whatever kids are selling on card tables in their front yard. — H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Late modern society is principally concerned with purchasing things, in ever greater abundance and variety, and so has to strive to fabricate an ever greater number of desires to gratify, and to abolish as many limits and prohibitions upon desire as it can. Such a society is already implicitly atheist and so must slowly but relentlessly apply itself to the dissolution of transcendent values. It cannot allow ultimate goods to distract us from proximate goods. Our sacred writ is advertising, our piety is shopping, our highest devotion is private choice. God and the soul too often hinder the purely acquisitive longings upon which the market depends, and confront us with values that stand in stark rivalry to the only truly substantial value at the center of the social universe: the price tag. — David Bentley Hart

I am young, I am twenty years old; yet I know nothing of life but despair, death, fear, and fatuous superficiality cast over an abyss of sorrow. I see how peoples are set against one another, and in silence, unknowingly, foolishly, obediently, innocently slay one another. — Erich Maria Remarque

I am wearing a vest. If I had no arms, it would be a jacket. — Mitch Hedberg

In a startup, in the early days, it can be hard to explain what you do. — Trip Adler

I'd love to go to space. I would love to peek out a giant window and look back at the blue marble. There's no question; I'd love to do that. — Gwynne Shotwell