"Read deeply, not to believe, not to accept, not to contradict, but to learn to share in that one nature that writes and reads."

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Source : Harold Bloom (2001). “How to Read and Why”, p.29, Simon and Schuster

Harold Bloom

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“The jealous man is so preoccupied with what he hasn't got that he fails to appreciate the value of what he has got. He loses the ability to feel glad because the sun is shining. He doesn't see the wonder and the newness of the beginning of spring.”
“Under our constitutional system, the executive executes the laws that Congress has passed. It should not be executing laws that Congress has rejected.”
“No exchange rate for the confidence of youth.”
“The EU is not a country and it's not going to become a country, in my view, now or ever in the future. It is a group of countries working together.”
“I don't know much about Hitler. Except that last thing, about the Jews. There has never been a country that put its heel down on the Jews that ever lived afterwards.”

Source : "Huey Long". Book by T. Harry Williams, 1969.
“All men are created equal and endowed by their Creator with a mighty urge to become otherwise.”
“As you open yourself to living at your edge, your deepest purpose will slowly begin to make itself known. In the meantime, you will experience layer after layer of purposes, each one getting closer and closer to the fullness of your deepest purpose. It is as if your deepest purpose is at the center of your being, and it is surrounded by layers of concentric circles, each circle being a lesser purpose. Your life consists of penetrating each circle, from the outside toward the center.”

Source : David Deida (2008). “The Way of the Superior Man: A Spiritual Guide to Mastering the Challenges of Women, Work, and Sexual Desire: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.61, ReadHowYouWant.com
“Truth burns up error.”

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