"A people are as healthy and confident as the stories they tell themselves. Sick storytellers can make nations sick."
Ben Okri
"A world constructed from the familiar is the world in which there's nothing to learn."
Eli Pariser
"What must not be read must not be written."
Melita Tessy
"Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant."
Epictetus
"Literature that awakens and inflames feelings is the food of hearts."
Ahmed Mayouf
"Remember the balance; the give-and-take of energy. The symbol of yin and yang is more than the integration of male and female. It’s also the balance of light and dark, soft and hard, active and passive, in and out, giver and receiver. You can’t have one without the other."
Anonymous
"In a world where vows are worthless.Where making a pledge means nothing. Where promises are made to be broken, it would be nice to see words come back into power."
Chuck Palahniuk
"Storytelling creates a healing serum. The thematic unguent of our personal story represents a fusion of the ineffable truths that each of us must discover within ourselves."
Kilroy J. Oldster
"Some of the best of us are quite unambitious."
Anthony Powell
"[E]very major religion today is a winner in the Darwinian struggle waged among cultures, and none ever flourished by tolerating its rivals."
Edward O. Wilson
"It is not systematic education which somehow molds society, but, on the contrary, society which, according to its particular structure, shapes education in relation to the ends and interests of those who control the power in that society."
Paulo Freire
"On a cooler sun on a primordial earth: 'I later learned that biologists, when they are feeling jocose, refer to this as the 'Chinese Resaturant Problem'--because we has a dim sun."
Bill Bryson
"History isn't about dates and places and wars. It's about the people who fill the spaces between them."
Jodi Picoult
"Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired."
Moliere
"You have heroes? No? What kind of feeling exist in you?"
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