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"Reason cannot establish values, and its belief that it can is the stupidiest and most pernicious illusion."
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"I've yet to find another soul who believes in me with the same fervency as my mother."

"I know you'll do what's best for Annabeth.""How can you be sure?""Because she'd do the same for you."

"Trust the perception not the presentation."

"Nyree taught me not to trust anyone but Steve quickly corrected that lesson and taught me not to trust everyone."

"To Confess Is To Surrender."

"Prayer is a conversation with the Father you trust."

"Authentic people are instantly more likable and trustworthy, which makes building rapport with them a pleasure."

"The fact that you do not trust your spouse or lover doesn't necessarily mean that they are cheating on you, and the fact that you do doesn't necessarily mean that they aren't."
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"Education in our times must try to find whatever there is in students that might yearn for completion, and to reconstruct the learning that would enable them autonomously to seek that completion."

"Only Socrates knew, after a lifetime of unceasing labor, that he was ignorant. Now every high-school student knows that. How did it become so easy?"

"We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished. The shepherds play with the fragments that pop up to the surface, having no notion of the beautiful structures of which they were once a part."

"Rock gives children, on a silver platter, with all the public authority of the entertainment industry, everything their parents always used to tell them they had to wait for until they grew up and would understand later."

"The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency - the belief that the here and now is all there is."

"Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise... specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine."

"Authentic values are those by which a life can be lived, which can form a people that produces great deeds and thoughts."

"The most important function of the university in an age of reason is to protect reason from itself."
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