"Democracy requires citizens to see things from one another's point of view, but instead were more and more enclosed in our own bubbles. Democracy requires a reliance on shared facts; instead were being offered parallel but separate universes."
Anonymous
"The malice thus becomes wholly real and the benevolence largely imaginary."
C.S. Lewis
"A fellowship of secret scholars spent five hundred years on this task. Now we're penciling it in for a Friday morning."
Robin Sloan
"One paid for one's knowledge with one's skin."
Rudyard Kipling
"If I studied all my life, I couldn't think up half the number of funny things passed in one session of congress."
Will Rogers
"Those in true spiritual authority have neither the desire nor the need to control anyone, either directly or subversively."
Thea Harris
"Poisonous relationships can alter our perception. You can spend many years thinking you’re worthless… but you’re not worthless, you’re unappreciated."
Anonymous
"The good composer is slowly discovered the bad composer is slowly found out."
Ernest Newman
"Not everything is about you,' Clary said furiously.'Possibly,' Jace said, 'but you do have to admit that the majority of things are."
Cassandra Clare
"Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives."
Anonymous
"Classicism is health, romanticisim is sickness."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"I was reaching for one of the handles when I heard Heidler’s voice from behind me. ‘It would not be wise to enter. It is a bad time to disturb the dead."
Micheal Rivers
"Our relation to books is a shadowy space haunted by the ghosts of memory, and the real value of books lies in their ability to conjure these specters."
Pierre Bayard
"In knowledge there is strength, in understanding there is might, and in wisdom there is power."
Matshona Dhliwayo
"To swallow gudgeons ere they're catch'd And count their chickens ere they're hatch'd."
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