The Enlightenment may have made its most lasting impact in the way we live and think today through its social history. Our institutions and laws, our conception of the state, and our political sensitivity all stem from Enlightenment ideas… Remarkably enough, at the center of these ideas stands the age-old concept of natural law. Much if the Enlightenment’s innovation in in political theory may be traced to a change in the interpretation of that concept.

Louis Dupré

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We are sitting on top of a vast cultural and historical pyramid of accumulated misconceptions, lies and myths, built one on top of the other.

Bryant McGill

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Tell the Truth. Make it Special.

Life’s a Beach. And then you Drown.

Good Ideas cost no more than Bad Ones.

Justin Allison

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Do try The House by fresh new author, Susannah Mansfield, it's funny, sad and very different, you'll love the characters and the stories.

Susannah Mansfield

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I just wanted to do something important.

Norman Rockwell

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Norman Rockwell saved my life.

Jane Allen Petrick

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