"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge."

-- Daniel J. Boorstin

#Inspiring Quotes #Education Quotes #Wisdom Quotes

“We comes from God, I from the Devil.”

Source : Yevgeny Zamyatin (1993). “We: New Edition”, p.115, Penguin
“The American Dream is the largely unacknowledged screen in front of which all American writing plays itself out,”
“I never wanted to accept that. And so I have always fought against that in some way, shape or form and had - I've had people who have supported trying to get me in for things that were beyond the character description.”
“Wanting to work is a luxury; having to work is not. If you're an artist, an actor, and you don't have to work, then you do work that you wanna do.”

Source : "Police Academy Week: a chat with actor/memoirist Steve Guttenberg". Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. May 7, 2012.
“I have always held firmly to the thought that each one of us can do a little to bring some portion of misery to an end.”
“Even if you can't get rid of the heat, as long as you can get rid of bother with the heat, your body is always on a cool terrace. Even if you can't get rid of poverty, as long as you can get rid of the sadness of poverty, your mind always lives in a comfortable abode.”
“Like mercy from heaven's gate, there's a freedom in your arms that carries me through. I need you.”
“Civilization is a process in the service of Eros, whose purpose is to combine single human individuals, and after that families, then races, peoples and nations, into one great unity, the unity of mankind. Why this has to happen, we do not know; the work of Eros is precisely this.”

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