"You aren't supposed to learn that dedicated, committed effort can bring about significant changes of consciousness and understanding. That's a very dangerous idea, and therefore it's been wiped out of history."
Noam Chomsky
"I’ve learned that being alone and being lonely are not the same thing. Once I was surrounded by people and lonely for it, but now I’m alone and I’ve never been so content."
Melinda Salisbury
"There is no substitute for education."
Anonymous
"Allow this poem to carry you beyond yourself, transcending your mortal flesh as you wed yourself with the potentially infinite."
Peter Davis
"Should you care to write (and only the saints know why you should) you must needs have knowledge and art and magic - the knowledge of the music of words, the art of being artless, and the magic of loving your readers."
Khalil Gibran
"Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment in silence."
Dorothy Dix
"Loving your language means a command of its vocabulary beyond the level of the everyday."
John McWhorter
"Maybe they’re not as mindless as we thought, or so dedicated to turning every last human into one of them. Like Kalyn says, they were just bored, waiting for something better to happen.And that better thing is us."
Scott Westerfeld
"[Alcohol] not only replaces positive actions which would address the root causes of our despondency – it prevents them, as more energy becomes focused on achieving and recovering from the drunken state."
CrimethInc.
"If someone always finds our mistakes then we must be happy to know that there, in the world, is at-least someone who is concentrating his mind and spending his time to make us flawless or perfect."
Sandy Raman
"The memories of men are too frail a thread to hang history from."
John Still
"We only get either A Lesson or A Miracle."
Ira N. Barin
"I'm about to start reading it again, because what good is a story you only want to read once?"
Bill Willingham
"If you have a vaccine or an antidote that people can benefit from, you're not going to want to keep it to yourself. You're going to want to spread that wisdom or whatever to as many people as you can, so everybody can benefit from it."
will.i.am
"The imaginary is not formed in opposition to reality as its denial or compensation; it grows among signs, from book to book, in the interstice of repetitions and commentaries; it is born and takes shape in the interval between books. It is the phenomena of the library."
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