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- He reflected deeply, until this feeling completely overwhelmed him and he reached a point where he recognized causes; for to recognize causes, it seemed to him, is to think, and through thought along feelings become knowledge and are not lost, but become real and being to mature.
- Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962), Siddhartha (1951), Chapter: Awakening
- It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.
- J. K. Rowling, Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince
- To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, right or wrong - is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.
- Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919)
- No society that feeds its children on tales of successful violence can expect them not to believe that violence in the end is rewarded.
- Margaret Mead (1901 - 1978), Anthropologist (1901-1978)
- Now the sirens have a still more fatal weapon than their song, namely their silence... someone might have escaped from their singing; but from their silence, certainly never.
- Franz Kafka (1883 - 1924)
- Evil has to exist along with good, in order that moral choice may operate.
- Anthony Burgess (1917 - 1993)
- I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.
- Jorge Luis Borges (1899 - 1986)
- Is what you hear at church religion? Is that which can bend, turn, and descend and ascend, to fit every crooked phrase of selfish, worldly society religion? Is that religion which is scrupulous, less generous, less just, less considerate for man, than even my own ungodly, worldly, blinded nature? No! When I look for religion, I must look for something above me, and not something beneath.
- Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811 - 1896), Uncle Tom’s Cabin
- We cannot meet 21st Century challenges with a 20th Century bureaucracy.
- Barack Obama (1961 - ), Nomination Acceptance Speech, 08-28-08
- That's the irony of women in charge, they don't like other women in charge.
- Michael R. Perry, House M.D., Deception, 2005
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