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There are two great powers and they've been fighting since time began. Every advance in human life, every scrap of knowledge and wisdom and decency we have has been torn by one side from the teeth of the other. Every little increase in human freedom has been fought over ferociously between those who want us to know more and be wiser and stronger, and those who want us to obey and be humble and submit. Philip Pullman
Some admit the damage, and try to mitigate it; some spend their lives trying to help others who are damaged; and then there are those whose main concern is to avoid further damage to themselves, at whatever cost. And those are the ones who are ruthless, and the ones to be careful of. Julian Barnes
...any one who has been to an English public school will always feel comparatively at home in prison. It is the people brought up in the gay intimacy of the slums, Paul learned, who find prison so soul destroying. Evelyn Waugh
John Quincy Adams quote: "We understand now, we've been made to understand, and to..."
We understand now, we've been made to understand, and to embrace the understanding that who we are is who we were. John Quincy Adams
You who weep for pleasures fled, While dragging on a life of care, All your woes will melt in air, If to god your tears are shed, You who Weap! Alexander Dumas
You know nothing... And suppose the vampire who made you knew nothing, and the vampire who made that vampire knew nothing, and the vampire before him knew nothing, and so it goes back and back, nothing proceeding from nothing, until there is nothing! And we must live with the knowledge that there is no knowledge. Anne Rice
as the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily , to appreciate more lovingly , our own. Margaret Mead
Alanis Morissette quote: "Although I know who I'm not, I still don't know who I am . . ."
Although I know who I'm not, I still don't know who I am . . . Alanis Morissette
Salvador Dali quote: "A true artist is not one who is inspired, but one who inspires..."
A true artist is not one who is inspired, but one who inspires others. Salvador Dali
Friedrich Nietzsche quote: "There are two different types of people in the world, those..."
There are two different types of people in the world, those who want to know, and those who want to believe. Friedrich Nietzsche
So in everything: power lies with those who control finance, not with those who know the matter upon which the money is to be spent. Thus, the holders of power are, in general, ignorant and malevolent, and the less they exercise their power the better. Bertrand Russell
Amy Tan quote: "Only two kinds of daughters, she shouted in Chinese. Those who..."
Only two kinds of daughters, she shouted in Chinese. Those who are obedient and those who follow their own mind! Amy Tan
I am not one who was born in the custody of wisdom; I am one who is fond of olden times & intense in quest of the sacred knowing of the ancients. Gustave Courbet
The guest was now the master of Wuthering Heights: he held firm possession, and proved to the attorney, who, in his turn, proved it to Mr. Linton, that Earnshaw had mortaged every yard of land he owned for cash to supply his mania for gaming; and he, Heathcliff, was the mortgagee.In that manner, Hareton, who should now be the first gentleman in the neighbourhood, was reduced to a state of complete dependence on his father's inveterate enemy; and lives in his own house as a servant deprived of... Emily Bronte
Poor Cindy's heart was torn to shreds. My Prince! She thought. He chops off heads! How could I marry anyone Who does that sort of thing for fun? The Prince cried, "Who's this dirty slut? Off with her nut! Off with her nut! Roald Dahl

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