"Every man of sound brain whom you meet knows something worth knowing better than yourself. A man, on the whole, is a better preceptor than a book. But what scholar does not allow that the dullest book can suggest to him a new and a sound idea?"

-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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“Courage, sacrifice, determination, commitment, toughness, heart, talent, guts. That's what little girls are made of; the heck with sugar and spice.”
“Why should we not form a secret society with but one object, the furtherance of the British Empire and the bringing of the whole world under British rule, for the recovery of the United States, for making the Anglo Saxon race but one Empire? What a dream, but yet it is probable; it is possible.”
“I never had any awkward situations with Shah Rukh.”
“Pain is a sensation produced by something contrary to the course of nature and this sensation is set up by one of two circumstances: either a very sudden change of the temperament (or the bad effect of a contrary temperament) or a solution of continuity.”

Source : Avicenna (1999). “The Canon of Medicine (al-Qānūn Fī'l-ṭibb)”, Abjad Book Designers & Builders
“I think I'm maintaining the quality, but internally I'm paying for it.”
“One-half plus one-half does not equal one; one whole plus one whole equals relational wholeness.”
“The man who loves his wife above all else on earth gains the freedom and power to pursue other noble, but lesser, loves.”
“I would rather be judged by 12 farmers than 12 scholars.”

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