"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."

Trust, Belief, Failure, Vision, Books

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"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."

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"Nothing is more singular about this generation than its addiction to music."

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"The real community of man is the community of those who seek the truth, of the potential knowers."

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"Students now arrive at the university ignorant and cynical about our political heritage, lacking the wherewithal to be either inspired by it or seriously critical of it."

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"The spirit is at home, if not entirely satisfied, in America."

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"As soon as tradition has come to be recognized as tradition, it is dead."

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"The liberally educated person is one who is able to resist the easy and preferred answers, not because he is obstinate but because he knows others worthy of consideration."

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"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."

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"There is no real teacher who in practice does not believe in the existence of the soul, or in a magic that acts on it through speech."

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

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"There is one thing a professor can be absolutely certain of: almost every student entering the university believes, or says he believes, that truth is relative."

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"The reason God never fails is because he fears to fail."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"There are two reasons why we don't trust people, First, we don't know them. Second, we know them."

Anonymous, Unknown Unknown

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"Trust your imagination, dreams, and hopes. Just never forget to take actions to justify your trust."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"Never be silent with persons you love and distrust," Mr. Carpenter had said once. "Silence betrays."

L. M. Montgomery, Canadian Author

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"It is always a difficult issue for each of us to trust one another yet we expect to be trusted by others."

Auliq Ice, Ugandan Economist

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"Trust yourself and try not to get lured off course by conflicting opinions that don't seem to sit right with you."

Auliq Ice, Ugandan Economist

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"Only God is our reliable help and protection."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"I've yet to find another soul who believes in me with the same fervency as my mother."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

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

Rick Riordan, American Novelist

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"A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain."

Mark Twain, American Author

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