"Is it too much to expect from the schools that they train their students not only to interpret but to criticize; that is, to discriminate what is sound from error and falsehood, to suspend judgement if they are not convinced, or to judge with reason if they agree or disagree?"

-- Mortimer Adler

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“Men will flee to caves in the rocks and to holes in the ground from dread of the LORD and the splendor of his majesty, when he rises to shake the earth.”
“I am wiser than this man, for neither of us appears to know anything great and good; but he fancies he knows something, although he knows nothing; whereas I, as I do not know anything, so I do not fancy I do. In this trifling particular, then, I appear to be wiser than he, because I do not fancy I know what I do not know.”
“When you get so that you can't see, you come to it gradually. And if you didn't come by it gradually, I guess you'd just kill yourself when you couldn't see.”
“We have to have faith in ourselves. I have never met a woman who, deep down in her core, really believes she has great legs. And if she suspects that she might have great legs, then she's convinced that she has a shrill voice and no neck.”

Source : Cynthia Heimel (1983). “Sex Tips For Girls: Lust, Love, and Romance from the Lives of Single Women”, p.26, Simon and Schuster
“I think that Star Wars revolutionized not only sci-fi movies, but also the entire industry in the way that things are done.”
“Life is a game board. Time is your opponent. If you procrastinate, you will lose the game. You must make a move to be victorious.”
“Knowledge is power. Knowledge shared is power multiplied.”
“As one, the shapechangers turned and looked at me. I wondered what they'd do if I asked to borrow a cup of sugar.”

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