"No-one can own our Lord Buddha. That would be a foolish claim, but the roads that lead to him, the Way... That is a different matter. They are all filled with toll-gates, like the roads of Japan, and the monks collect the fees."
Erik Christian Haugaard
"...The student of prehistoric man...Cannot reject [the Castenedolo skull] as false without doing injury to his sense of truth, and he cannot accept it as fact without shattering his accepted beliefs."
Arthur Keith
"Young man, names are powerful things. You don’t just go around using them for no reason."
Rick Riordan
"As we know from the study of history, no new system can impose itself upon a previous one without incorporating many of the elements to be found in the latter..."
Anonymous
"A quality is something capable of being completely embodied. A law never can be embodied in its character as a law except by determining a habit. A quality is how something may or might have been. A law is how an endless future must continue to be."
Charles Sanders Peirce
"John: I'm experiencing an odd sensation. I think it might be patriotism.Spitfire: Steady. Too much of that can damage your health."
Paul Cornell
"Laws die books never."
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
"Does any (MFA) program really improve anybody, as much as simply identifying them? And, after identifying them, not ruining them?"
Chang-rae Lee
"That not adhering to those notions Reason dictates (concerning the nature of God), has been the occasion of all superstition, and those innumerable mischiefs that mankind (on account of religion) have done to themselves or to one another."
Matthew Tindal
"I have an unshakable belief that mankind’s higher nature is on the whole still dormant. The greatest souls reveal excellencies of mind and heart which their lesser fellows possess-hidden, it is true, but there all the same."
Helen Keller
"...We took the 10 machines we agreed were the most beguiling, and we put them on permanent exhibit in the foyer of this library underneath a sign whose words can surely be applied to this whole ruined planet nowadays: THE COMPLICATED FUTILITY OF IGNORANCE."
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
"He presented justice as a psychological relief."
Jill Leovy
"It was deeply important for me to understand where Mandela came from. Because we know where he was going, and that's a famous story, but who was he? Where did he come from? What was his upbringing?"
Idris Elba
"In today's world simple kindness is a revolutionary act."
Bryant McGill
"Evil forges a tornado.But goodness battles in a straight line."
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