"Anybody or anything may stand between you and knowledge if you are unfit for it."

-- Idries Shah

“It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil,... that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.”
“Nobody believes in ghosts, but everybody is afraid of them ...”
“I like writing for other people. I love it. It's great because you write it and then you hand it off to someone else. But in terms of directing, anything I direct will be something I've written or re-written. I'm in no crazy rush to direct.”
“I always believed that my silence on several topics will be an advantage in the long run.”
“Let us drink together, fellows, as we did in days of yore. And still enjoy the golden hours that Fortune has in store; The absent friends remembered be, in all thatâ€™s sung or said, And Love immortal consecrate the memory of the dead.”
“Treasure nothing, be willing to throw out anything. The story you just wrote that you are proud of should not be coddled and worshipped. You can do it again. If your house burned down with all your work inside it, you would still be the writer you are, and you would continue to be worth something.”
“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.”
“The White House has a choice: They can change course, or they can double down on a vision of government that the American people have roundly rejected.”

Source : "McConnell: GOP Plans To Stop 'Liberal Onslaught'". "All Things Considered" with David Welna, www.npr.org. November 4, 2010.

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