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"I had rather that the human race, having a certain quality in their lives, should continue for only a few centuries than that, losing freedom, friendship, dignity, and mercy, and learning to be quite content without them, they should continue for millions of millennia."

"And just look at these men: their eye saith it - they know nothing better on earth than to be with a woman.Filth is at the bottom of their souls, and alas! If their filth hath spirit in it!"

"Humility is one of the best expressions of self respect."

"When phobia starts to build up in the psyche of thinking humanity against a part of its own kind, there is nothing more primordial and gruesome than that, especially when we are talking about a species that is supposedly the most intelligent one on Earth. Phobias recorded in DSM do not make a person lesser human, but Islamophobia does indeed define whether a person is really a thinking and sentient sapiens or an ignorant caveman."

"After an awkward pause, Bast extended his hand. Chronicler hesitated for a bare moment before reaching out quickly, as if he were sticking his hand into a fire. Nothing happened, both of them seemed moderately surprised."Amazing, isn't it?" Kvothe addressed them bitingly. "Five fingers and flesh with blood beneath. One could almost believe that on the other end of that hand lay a person of some sort."

"Everything about a person may not be perfect, but there are somethings in every person that deserve our respect."
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"One always has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual."


"One has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual."


"What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life."


"An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of critical creativeness, for speech is itself a critique of life: it names, it characterizes, it passes judgment, in that it creates."


"I love and reverence the Word, the bearer of the spirit, the tool and gleaming ploughshare of progress."


"Has the world ever been changed by anything save the thought and its magic vehicle the Word?"
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