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What does a man live for but to have a girl, use his mind, practice his trade, drink a drink, read a book, and watch the martins wing it for the Amazon and the three-fingered sassafras turn red in October? Art Immelmann is right. Man is not made for suffering, night sweats, and morning terrors. Walker Percy
Paulo Freire quote: "If the structure does not permit dialogue the structure must..."
If the structure does not permit dialogue the structure must be changed Paulo Freire
Every now and then, a person must do something simply because he wants to, because it seems to him worth doing. And that does not make it worthless or a waste of time. E. L. Konigsburg
Flannery O'Connor quote: "free will does not mean one will, but many wills conflicting..."
...free will does not mean one will, but many wills conflicting in one man. Freedom cannot be conceived simply. Flannery O'Connor
What does it mean to live in truth? Putting it negatively is easy enough: it means not lying, not hiding, and not dissimulating. Milan Kundera
Mortimer Adler quote: "The person who says he knows what he thinks but cannot express..."
The person who says he knows what he thinks but cannot express it usually does not know what he thinks. Mortimer Adler
Les Brown quote: "Perfection does not exist -- you can always do better and you..."
Perfection does not exist -- you can always do better and you can always grow. Les Brown
As for me, the silence and the emptiness is so great, that I look and do not see,? Listen and do not hear? the tongue moves but does not speak? I want you to pray for me? that I let Him have free hand. Mother Teresa
There I go being critical again. Does a man have to stand on one foot and juggle for me to consider him entertaining? What am I looking for? A knight?...No, knights are all polished and shiny. I think my taste runs to something with a bit of tarnish and maybe a few scratches. Someone who can make me laugh and cry and make me angry and make my knees tremble when he touches me. Nora Roberts
It does not do to laugh at the pangs of youth. They are very terrible because youth has not yet learned that 'this, too, will pass away. L. M. Montgomery
What kind of world does one see when one experiences it from the point of view of two and not one? What is the world like when it is experienced, developed and lived from the point of view of difference and not identity? That is what I believe love to be. Alain Badiou
But don't you see, all human decisions are made like this. Do you think the mother knows what will happen to the child in her womb? Dear God, we are lost, I tell you. What does it matter if you give it to me and it's wrong! There is no wrong! There is only desperation, and I would have it! I want to live forever with you. Anne Rice
And now," he continued, speaking to Milo, "where were you on the night on July 27?" What does that have to do with it?" asked Milo. It's my birthday, that's what," said the policeman as he entered "Forgot my birthday" in his little book. "Boys always forget other people's birthdays. Norton Juster
But then he told himself: What does it really mean to be useful? Today's world, just as it is, contains the sum of the utility of all people of all times. Which implies: The highest morality consists in being useless. Milan Kundera
Charles Darwin quote: "Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge."
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge. Charles Darwin

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