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"It is pleasant to be transferred from an office where one is afraid of a sergeant-major into an office where one can intimidate generals and perhaps this is why history is so attractive to the more timid among us."
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"The only gift to yourself is your ability to seek knowledge."
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"Ignorance is the darkest depths."
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"Every book has to wait for the right time to be read and understood."
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"Devote yourself to reading of Scriptures."
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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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"Life is all about discovery."
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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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"Dare to ask questions. This is the only way to find answers to your curiosity."
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"Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face. The beauty who does not look surprised, who accepts her position as her due - she reminds us too much of a prima donna."
Beauty
"A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself."
Information
"One marvels why the middle classes still insist on so much discomfort for their children at such expense to themselves."
Family
"To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way."
Man
"I am so used to seeing the sort of play which deals with one man and two women. They do not leave me with the feeling I have made a full theatrical meal they do not give me the experience of the multiplicity of life."
Life
"We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship."
Freedom
"The issues Miss Quested had raised were so much more important than she was herself that people inevitably forgot her."
Society
"History develops, art stands still."
Art
"Nothing ever happens to me, " she reflected..... An older person at such an hour and in such a place might think that sufficient was happening to him, and rest content. Lucy desired more."
Self
"Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him."
Death
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