“You don’t write about the horrors of war. No. You write about a kid’s burnt socks lying in the road.”
– Richard Price
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Sermon – Oliver Goldsmith
“You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lip.”
– Oliver Goldsmith
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Tyranny – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
“A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.”
– Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Knowledge – Soren Kierkegaard
“What I really need is to get clear about what I must do, not what I must know, except insofar as knowledge must precede every act.”
– Soren Kierkegaard
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Conventionality – Bronte
“Conventionality is not morality.”
– Bronte
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Doubting – Idea Catalog
“All my doubting, never got me far.”
Idea Catalog @ideacatalog
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Habits – Rob Gilbert
“First we form habits, then they form us. Conquer your bad habits or they will conquer you.”
― Rob Gilbert
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Richly alone – Sylvia Plath
“I need not to be more with others, but to be more & more deeply, richly alone. Recreating worlds.”
– Sylvia Plath
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Colourblind – Albert Schweitzer
“An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight… the truly wise person is colorblind.”
– Albert Schweitzer
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Pilgrim soul – W. B. Yeats
“How many loved your moments of glad grace,
And loved your beauty with love false or true,
But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you…”
– W. B. Yeats
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Question mark – Bertrand Russell
“In all affairs it’s a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.”
– Bertrand Russell
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Belief – David Hume
“Belief is nothing but a more vivid, lively, forcible, firm, steady conception of an object than what the imagination alone is able to attain.”
– David Hume
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Unexpected question – Francis Bacon
“A sudden, bold, and unexpected question can many times surprise a man, and even lay him open.”
– Francis Bacon
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Four things – Omar Ibn Al-Halif
“Four things come not back: the spoken word, the spent arrow, the past, the neglected opportunity.”
– Omar Ibn Al-Halif
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Wrong ― Noam Chomsky
“If it’s wrong when they do it, it’s wrong when we do it.”
― Noam Chomsky