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“There are many kinds of knowledge, only one of them worth everything, only one of them not subject to opinion or degree or damage. If you come to that, you will know what I mean. If you don't, listen to someone who has.”
Source : Jan Frazier (2007). “When Fear Falls Away: The Story of a Sudden Awakening”, p.194, Weiser Books
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“Friendship is higher than love. Sometimes, it's less glamorous, or less passionate, but it's deeper and kind of wiser, I think.”
Source : Michka Assayas (2006). “Bono”, p.94, Penguin
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“Junior was eleven. The statement is significant. There are a few peevish people in the world who believe that all eleven-year-old boys ought to be hung. Others, less irritable, think that gently chloroforming them would seem more humane. A great many good-natured folks contend that incarceration for a couple of years would prove the best way to dispose of them.”
Source : Bess Streeter Aldrich (1924). “Mother Mason”, p.34, U of Nebraska Press
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“To insist, even with Olympian assurance, that life appeared quite by chance and evolved in this fashion, is an unfounded supposition which I believe to be wrong and not in accordance with the facts.”
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“Gin for executions, beer for birthdays, wine for weddings.”
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“My first job after my retirement from baseball was as a narrator for the Eastman Philharmonica.”
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“You do not have to sit outside in the dark. If, however, you want to look at the stars, you will find that darkness is necessary. But the stars neither require nor demand it.”
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“So, you can set up an orchestra down this end of the railway station playing one particular area, and simultaneously at the other end something completely different going on. And in the middle they meet, or not, depending.”
