"The power of generalizing ideas, of drawing comprehensive conclusions from individual observations, is the only acquirement, for an immortal being, that really deserves the name of knowledge."

-- Mary Wollstonecraft

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“I'm looking for a market for wisdom.”

Source : Leo Szilard, Helen S. Hawkins, G. Allen Greb, Gertrud Weiss Szilard (1987). “Toward a Livable World: Leo Szilard and the Crusade for Nuclear Arms Control”, p.67, MIT Press
“I really loved Twin Peaks. When I saw the two-hour pilot, they screened it in the big theatre. I said, I don't know what is going to happen. I'm in this and I don't understand it. This is never going to sell. Who's going to watch this thing?”
“So often among so-called "primitives" one comes across spiritual personalities who immediately inspire respect, as though they were the fully matured products of an undisturbed fate.”
“I understand basketball is not my entire life. It's only a part of my life. And there are a lot of other things that interest me a great deal ... other goals to seek, and this is how I have balance in life.”
“I dont remember a single thing in my childhood that was not related in some way to building.”

Source : "Q: What can be done to improve the suburbs of Paris? A: People are starting to understand that the real challenge is to turn peripheries into cities" by Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. November 21, 2005.
“Interest makes all seem reason that leads to it.”
“OK, whatever, I was taking out false loans”
“The farther we get from God, the more the world spirals out of control.”

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