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James A. Baldwin

"The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side."

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"The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side."

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"There is only a perspective seeing, only a perspective "knowing"; and the more affects we allow to speak about one thing, the more eyes, different eyes, we can use to observe one thing, the more complete will our "concept" of this thing, our "objectivity," be."

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"Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know."

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"Science is a proven concept with standards. Wisdom is the knowledge of life that we learn by living it."

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"If we knew what is already there, there will be no need for research."

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"One of the most important gifts that you can give to yourself is the gift of self-education, that is the best way to grow on constant basis."

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"If you begin to read, you find the answers you seek."

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"Understand the concept of time and find ways to maximize it effectively."

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"Why must ignorance be destroyed? Because it is the number one destroyer of the people of God."

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"Oh, my dear Vimes, history changes all the time. It is constantly being re-examined and re-evaluated, otherwise how would we be able to keep historians occupied? We can't possibly allow people with their sort of minds to walk around with time on their hands."

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"I know that I do not know, and uncertainty, certainly, is the cruelest of words."

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"The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment."
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"Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks."
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"Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent."
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"The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did - which was to hide."
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"Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock."
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"The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one's key to the experience of others."
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"No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time."
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"It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive."
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"Be careful what you set your heart upon - for it will surely be yours."
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"Education is indoctrination if you're white - subjugation if you're black."
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