"Most people do not believe in anything very much and our greatest poetry is given to us by those that do."
Cyril Connolly
"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
"I wondered: what happens when a hundred thousand people memorize the same poem? Does anything change?"
Madeleine Thien
"The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities."
Anonymous
"I had always assumed that cliche was a suburb of Paris until I discovered it to be a street in Oxford."
Philip Guedalla
"Once you read something, you can't erase it from your brain."
Lisa McMann
"The Four Agreements:1. Be impeccable with your word.2. Don't take anything personally. 3. Don't make assumptions. 4. Always do your best."
Miguel Ruiz
"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
"One thing hatred can do very well is to attack what it hates!"
Unknown
"Jazz is not just 'Well, man, this is what I feel like playing.' It's a very structured thing that comes down from a tradition and requires a lot of thought and study."
Wynton Marsalis
"The past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present was itself founded on some past that went before it."
Madame de Stael
"Nothing represents a man better than his ideas."
Unknown
"Gifts are hooks."
Martial
"Nobody is driven by abstractions like 'seeking truth."
Michael Crichton
"And read… read all the time… read as a matter of principle, as a matter of self-respect. Read as a nourishing staple of life."
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