"In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king."

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Source : Desiderius Erasmus, William Watson Barker (2001). “The Adages of Erasmus”, p.276, University of Toronto Press

Desiderius Erasmus

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“The smallest pebble in the well of truth has its peculiar meaning, and will stand when man's best monuments have passed away.”

Source : Nathaniel Parker Willis (1850). “The poetical works of N.P. Willis”, p.161
“Nobody else in the world can play the way Scholes does. The passes he produces all over the field and the way he changes the game is brilliant. Every manager would like him. But luckily he is here and playing with us. Paul practices that all the time. When he has finished training he always goes out and shoots.”

Source : "Manchester United's Dimitar Berbatov Says Nobody Can Play Like Paul Scholes". www.telegraph.co.uk. February 19, 2009.
“Don’t get addicted to being human. This is only temporary.”
“I write when I have to; I write when the song is done and I deal with the idea and I just go with it and I'll become what that song is all about until I have finished it. And when you do that, it makes the song more visual, it makes it more personal.”
“When we know Christ, we always know how things are going to go...always for our good and always for His glory.”
“Both of my parents are professors and everyone in my family has some fabulous degree of something or another and I couldn't get into college because I didn't know a language.”
“I wanted to be successful, not famous.”
“Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within.”

Source : Ralph Cudworth, Thomas Birch (1838). “The True Intellectual System of the Universe: Wherein All the Reason and Philosophy of Atheism is Confuted, and Its Impossibility Demonstrated. A Treatise on Immutable Morality; with a Discourse Concerning the True Notion of the Lord's Supper: and Two Sermons on 1. John 2: 3, 4, and 1. Cor. 15: 27”, p.423

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