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There is nothing more wonderful than freedom of speech. More Ilya G. Ehrenburg
Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark. The pleasure they give is steady, unorgastic, reliable, deep and long-lasting. In any library in the world, I am at home, unselfconscious, still and absorbed. More Germaine Greer
I would rather have as my patron a host of anonymous citizens digging into their own pockets for the price of a book or a magazine than a small body of enlightened and responsible men administering public funds. I would rather chance my personal vision of truth striking home here and there in the chaos of publication that exists than attempt to filter it through a few sets of official, honorably public-spirited scruples. More John Updike
The current flows fast and furious. It issues in a spate of words from the loudspeakers and the politicians. Every day they tell us that we are a free people fighting to defend freedom. That is the current that has whirled the young airman up into the sky and keeps him circulating there among the clouds. Down here, with a roof to cover us and a gas mask handy, it is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth. More Virginia Woolf
[Batman gets a dose of the Scarecrow's nerve gas]
The Scarecrow: Having trouble?
[Batman falls onto a chair]
The Scarecrow: Take a seat.
[splashes Batman with gasoline]
The Scarecrow: Have a drink.
[nightmarish images of the Scarecrow, bats, and the shooting play in his mind]
The Scarecrow: You look like a man who takes himself too seriously.
[lights a lighter]
The Scarecrow: You want my opinion? You need to lighten up.
[Scarecrow lights Batman on fire] More Movie: Batman Begins [2005] Movie: Batman Begins [2005]
The boy gathers materials for a temple, and then when he is thirty, concludes to build a woodshed. More Henry David Thoreau
Instinct is action taken in pursuance of a purpose, but without conscious perception of what the purpose is. More Van Hartmann
Valor is common but great souls are rare. More Bernard Joseph Saurin
The trouble with measurement is its seeming simplicity. More unknown unknown
The spendthrift robs his heirs the miser robs himself. More Jean de La Bruyere
There is stuff that I do where I am just, like, 'Oh man, this is brutal and why did I do that and why did I make that choice and what am I doing?' ... This time I just -- I don't know, it just seemed pretty honest when I saw it. More Matt Damon
When nature exceeds culture, we have the rustic. When culture exceeds nature then we the pedant. More Confucius
Some couples go over their budgets very carefully every month. Others just go over them. More Sally Poplin
Be kind to unkind people -- they need it the most. More unknown unknown
The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know. More Gaston Bachelard
So that he seemed not to relinquish life, but to leave one home for another. More Cornelius Nepos
Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government. More Washington George
Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are. More George Eliot
Self-observation brings man to the realization of the necessity of self-change. And in observing himself a man notices that self-observation itself brings about certain changes in his inner processes. He begins to understand that self-observation is an instrument of self-change, a means of awakening. More George Gurdjieff
He who does not hope to win has already lost. More Jose Joaquin Olmedo

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