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The first effect of emancipation from the Church was not to make men think rationally, but to open their minds to every sort of antique nonsense Bertrand Russell
Mario'd fallen in love with the first Madam Psychosis programs because he felt like he was listening to someone sad read out loud from yellow letters she'd taken out of a shoebox on a rainy P.M, stuff about heartbreak and people you loved dying and U.S. woe, stuff that was real. It is increasingly hard to find valid art that is about stuff that is real in this way. The older Mario gets, the more confused he gets about the fact that everyone at E.T.A. over the age of about Kent Blott finds... David Foster Wallace
Be as beneficent as the sun or the sea, but if your rights as a rational being are trenched on, die on the first inch of your territory. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Freedom in education has many aspects. There is first of all freedom to learn or not to learn. Then there is freedom as to what to learn. And in later education there is freedom of opinion. Bertrand Russell
Ursula K. Le Guin quote: "The first thing I can remember clearly is writing the way into..."
The first thing I can remember clearly is writing the way into the secret room. Ursula K. Le Guin
George Leigh Mallory quote: "To struggle and to understand. Never the last without the..."
To struggle and to understand. Never the last without the first. That is the law. George Leigh Mallory
Shirley Chisholm quote: "Be as bold as the first man or [woman] to eat an oyster."
Be as bold as the first man or [woman] to eat an oyster. Shirley Chisholm
If people saw the world for what it truly is. Saw their lives for what they truly are. Without dreams or illusions. I don't believe they could offer the first reason why they should not elect to die as soon as possible. Cormac McCarthy
The first lights of the evening were springing into pale existence. The Ferris wheel, pricked out now in lights, revolved leisurely through the dusk; a few empty cars of the roller coaster rattled overhead. F. Scott Fitzgerald
Fyodor Dostoevsky quote: "There are chance meetings with strangers that interest us from..."
There are chance meetings with strangers that interest us from the first moment, before a word is spoken. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Vice is a monster of so frightful mien. As to be hated needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace. Alexander Pope
I felt in my bones; first, that this world does not explain itself. It may be a miracle with a supernatural explanation; it may be a conjuring trick, with a natural explanation. But the explanation of the conjuring trick, if it is to satisfy me, will have to be better than the natural explanations I have heard. The thing is magic, true or false. Second, I came to feel as if magic must have a meaning, and meaning must have some one to mean it. There was something personal in the world, as in a... Gilbert K. Chesterton
All the world will be your enemy. Prince with a thousand enemies. And when they catch you, they will kill you... But first, they must catch you. Digger... Listener... Runner... Prince with the swift warning. Be cunning and full of tricks. And your people shall never be destroyed. Richard Adams
Rumi quote: "Would you become a pilgrim on the road of love? The first..."
Would you become a pilgrim on the road of love? The first condition is that you make yourself humble as dust and ashes. Rumi
I am no more lonely than a single mullein or dandelion in a pasture, or abean leaf, or sorrel, or a horse-fly, or a bumblebee. I am no more lonelythan the Mill Brook, or a weathercock, or the north star, or the southwind, or an April shower, or a January thaw, or the first spider in a newhouse. Henry David Thoreau

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