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"When you abbreviate your learning, you abbreviate your growth. Expand your knowledge and you keep growing taller and fatter than your limitations."

"Knowledge is the path, understanding is the way, wisdom is the highway, and enlightenment is the destination."

"What one thinks is right is not always the same as what others think is right, no one can be always right."

"To know if someone can speak offensively or politely, don't give him poem to recite; don't give him a song to sing. Just engage him in an argument and you will know it for yourself who he is."

"Wisdom is the result of time well spent."

"Where there are two on point of independently distinguished purposes, you will find one infinite journey whose path is blazed with the guiding light of wisdom."

"Our experience is coloured through and through by books and plays and the cinema, and it takes patience and skill to disentangle the things we have really learned from life for ourselves."

"A 'biomass' man is not deeply analyzing things to draw a meaningful conclusions."
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"I wanted to show that crime doesn't pay. If you are saved and accept the Lord, you cannot use that as an excuse to avoid punishment."


"You get below the Mason-Dixon line and you have some of the best music, culture, the two races, the literature, and it's so rich."


"Too many people think that economics is this subject that should wait until the university level. But it can't wait that long."


"The cultural contrast I saw between religions... Catholics have a lot of mediators, going through saints and Mary or whatever. Protestants in general say things to God directly."


"The greatest king of Israel, King David, the author of the Psalms, sent a man out to die in battle so that he could sleep with his wife."


"My father's people... are from Fairfax in northern Virginia, just across the Mason-Dixon line. So it was an honour to play Lee, he was a great general."


"I always thought of myself as a later bloomer, so I like some of my work more later than earlier."
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