"The information that was contained in a cathedral was based upon a common culture - a common Christian culture - and the elements were chosen for a common symbolic meaning. Someone who knew everything that was represented in a cathedral had a sort of encyclopedia - you can indeed call it that - but it was a selective encyclopedia, like encyclopedias back when they were books and the people writing them were supposed to be specialists in their field. I think today the problem is that people don't know how to choose between different kinds of information."

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Eugene Green

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“I have had breast implants, but it's so funny 'cause it's not a secret; I could care less.”
“While we are contending for our own liberty, we should be very cautious not to violate the conscience of others, ever considering that God alone is the judge of the hearts of men, and to Him only in this case are they answerable.”
“And in most highly academic environments in the United States, no one fails anything.”

Source : Paul Tough (2012). “How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character”, p.86, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“There are persons whom in my heart I despise, others I abhor. Yet I am not obliged to inform the one of my contempt, nor the other of my detestation. This kind of dissimulation...is a necessary branch of wisdom, and so far from being immoral...that it is a duty and a virtue.”
“Not that I wish by any means to deny, that the mental life of individuals and peoples is also in conformity with law, as is the object of philosophical, philological, historical, moral, and social sciences to establish.”

Source : Hermann von Helmholtz, David Cahan (1995). “Science and Culture: Popular and Philosophical Essays”, p.96, University of Chicago Press
“Life isn't a support system for art. It's the other way around.”
“It means I don't have to charter that big jet for the family.”
“England expects every man to do his duty”

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