Books are challenging and inspirational to me.

"Books are challenging and inspirational to me."

Amy Sedaris

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"Logos are the bleating of the insecure, desperate for acceptance by the chronically shallow."

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Jose Bergamin

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"When a man is in despair, it means that he still believes in something."

Dmitri Shostakovich

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What's optimism? Said Cacambo. Alas, said Candide, it is a mania for saying things are well when one is in hell.

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The author says the mark of a true rest your creature is an inability to be still without a kind of resignation.

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"The question, therefore, is not whether one should teach philosophy to Muslim students, but rather what kind or kinds of philosophy should be taught and how the subject should be approached."

Seyyed Hossein Nasr

"In the silence, whether we listen to the creation around us, the words of revelation, or the deepest stirrings of our own hearts, we begin to perceive another voice, one that is too often lost in the static of life. It is no use saying: ”Speak, Lord, your servant wants to hear,” if We never risk the silence to listen. 48."

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"The rationale that etiquette should be eschewed because it fosters inequality does not ring true in a society that openly admits to a feverish interest in the comparative status-conveying qualities of sneakers. Manners are available to all, for free."

Judith Martin

"What is most of our boasted so-called knowledge but a conceit that we know something, which robs us of the advantage of our actual ignorance?"

Henry David Thoreau

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"It seemed there was always a close correlation between true believers and high body counts."

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