"It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, ''Know thyself,'' and too often leads to a self- estimate which will subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident."

-- George Eliot

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“Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world.”
“I use images as signifiers that point to layers of history, lost communities or a latent collective whispering within a certain context.”
“The use of the internet, the use of Twitter, the way protest movements developed...This is a different world.”

Source : "MI6 and ministers urged to use social networks" by Richard Norton-Taylor, www.theguardian.com. March 3, 2011.
“Hobbes clearly proves, that every creature Lives in a state of war by nature.”
“People have less privacy and are crammed together in cities, but in the wide open spaces they secretly keep tabs on each other a lot more”
“No matter how good the pitcher, she is still hit-able in more than one way.”
“In speaking, for convenience, of devices and expedients, I did not intend to imply that Shakespeare always deliberately aimed at the effects which he produced.”
“You can teach students to develop the ability to think reflectively, and you can help them understand what this means, but if they are not inclined to do so they never will.”

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