"I am a public library"

-- Tony Benn

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“A system of philosophy, or metaphysics, is a union of a world view and a life view in one harmonious, complete, integral conception. In so far as any man strives to attain, by rational inquiry, a consistent and comprehensive view of life and reality, he is a metaphysician.”

Source : Joseph Alexander Leighton (1922). “Man and the Cosmos - An introduction to Metaphysics.”
“Poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.”
“One tell-tale sign of a Wingnut: they always confuse partisanship with patriotism.”
“The senior members of the royal family work very hard and I don't think people quite realise that.”
“What we earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are.”
“Dead things show you what youâ€™ll be too one day.”
“So many of the bands that influenced me growing up were English, even if I didn't realise it. English pop ruled the world in the '80s!”

Source : "Cee Lo Green: 'I've been such an oddball my whole life'". Interview with Caspar Llewellyn Smith, www.theguardian.com. November 13, 2010.
“I don't know, I don't want to talk as much. (...) It's nicer to think dear, pretty thoughts and keep them in one's heart, like treasures. I don't like to have them laughed at or wondered over.”

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