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William Shakespeare quote: "Of all knowledge, the wise and good seek mostly to know..."
Of all knowledge, the wise and good seek mostly to know themselves. William Shakespeare
[W]hat makes patriotic and religious fanatics such dangerous opponents is not the deaths of the fanatics themselves, but their willingness to accept the deaths of a fraction of their number in order to annihilate or crush their infidel enemy. Jared Diamond
Derrick Jensen quote: "The only real job of a teacher, especially a writing teacher,..."
The only real job of a teacher, especially a writing teacher, is to help students find themselves. Derrick Jensen
Books can truly change our lives: the lives of those who read them, the lives of those who write them. Readers and writers alike discover things they never knew about the world and about themselves. Lloyd Alexander
Sometimes I sensed that the books I read in rapid succession had set up some sort of murmur among themselves, transforming my head into an orchestra pit where different musical instruments sounded out, and I would realize that I could endure this life because of these musicales going on in my head. Orhan Pamuk
This, then, is the great humanistic and historical task of the oppressed: to liberate themselves and their oppressors as well. Paulo Freire
Don't wait for the right answer and the golden path to present themselves. This is precisely why you're stuck. Starting without seeing the end is difficult, so we often wait until we see the end, scanning relentlessly for the right way, the best way and the perfect way. The way to get unstuck is to start down the wrong path, right now. Step by step, page by page, interaction by interaction. As you start moving, you can't help but improve, can't help but incrementally find yourself getting... Seth Godin
nothing has contributed so much to the obscuring of Christian truth in the eyes of the heathen, and has hindered so much the diffusion of Christianity through the world, as the disregard of [non-resistance] by men calling themselves Christians, and the permission of war and violence to Christians. Leo Tolstoy
Robertson Davies quote: "They were anxious to make men of us, by which they meant..."
They were anxious to make men of us, by which they meant making us like themselves. Robertson Davies
Few things build a person up like affirmation. According to Webster’s New World Dictionary, Third College Edition (Simon and Schuster, 1991), the word affirm comes from ad firmare, which means “to make firm.” So when you affirm people, you make firm within them the things you see about them. Do that often enough, and the belief that solidifies within them will become stronger than the doubts they have about themselves. John C. Maxwell
Marjane Satrapi quote: "Whether this tale be true or false, none can tell, for none..."
Whether this tale be true or false, none can tell, for none were there to witness it themselves. Marjane Satrapi
Pythagoras quote: "When the wise man opens his mouth, the beauties of his soul..."
When the wise man opens his mouth, the beauties of his soul present themselves to the view, like the statues in a temple. Pythagoras
What is interesting and important happens mostly in secret, in places where there is no power. Nothing much of lasting value ever happens at the head table, held together by a familiar rhetoric. Those who already have power continue to glide along the familiar rut they have made for themselves. Michael Ondaatje
People who pride themselves on their "complexity" and deride others for being "simplistic" should realize that the truth is often not very complicated. What gets complex is evading the truth. Thomas Sowell
The man who cannot believe his senses, and the man who cannot believe anything else, are both insane, but their insanity is proved not by any error in their argument, but by the manifest mistake of their whole lives. They have both locked themselves up in two boxes, painted inside with the sun and stars; they are both unable to get out, the one into the health and happiness of heaven, the other even into the health and happiness of the earth. Gilbert K. Chesterton

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