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B. H. Liddell Hart quote: "A complacent satisfaction with present knowledge is the chief..."

A complacent satisfaction with present knowledge is the chief bar to the pursuit of knowledge.

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The Pekes and the Pollicles, everyone knows, Are proud and implacable, passionate foes; It is always the same, wherever one goes. And the Pugs and the Poms, although most people saythat they do not like fighting, will often display. Every symptom of wanting to join in the fray. And they. Bark bark bark bark bark bark. Until you can hear them all over the park. T. S. Eliot
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We wake from our doings in a deep sweat for that they happened in a house without an address, in a street in no town, citizened with people with no names with which to deny them. Their very lack of identity makes them ourselves. For by a street number, by a house, by a name, we cease to accuse ourselves. Sleep demands of us a guilty immunity. There is not one of us who, given an eternal incognito, a thumbprint nowhere set against our souls, would not commit rape, murder and all abominations. Djuna Barnes
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The number one reason I write is to come to schools and see my readers. I would do it for free. Frank Murphy
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Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain--and most do. Dale Carnegie
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My parents didn't have the opportunities that my wife and I have now, from a quality of life standpoint. Derek Fisher
Katey Sagal quote: "You realize mortality is everywhere."
You realize mortality is everywhere. Katey Sagal
It is as necessary for a poor man to give away, as for a rich man. Many poor men are more devoted worshipers of Mammon than some rich men. George MacDonald
I would be quite satisfied if my novels (especially the ones I set in the past) did no more than teach my readers that their past - with all its imperfections - was not one long night of savagery from which the first Europeans acting on God's behalf delivered them Chinua Achebe
When liberals finally grasped the strength of popular feeling about the family, they cried to appropriate the rhetoric and symbolism of family values for their own purposes. Christopher Lasch
I have seen them riding seaward on the waves Combing the white hair of the waves blown back When the wind blows the water white and black. We have lingered in the chambers of the sea By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown Till human voices wake us, and we drown. T. S. Eliot
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Suppose the world were only one of God's jokes, would you work any the less to make it a good joke instead of a bad one? George Bernard Shaw
Lebanon was under Israeli occupation, up to its capital, but we did not consider that a disaster. Why? Because it was very clear that there are ways to resist. Bashar al-Assad
It made me alive to the fact that the most important thing sometimes is what isn't said - to prepare for moments of revelation that can be read entirely on actors' faces without dialogue. Robert Towne