"By doing good we become good."

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Source : Jean Jacques Rousseau (2015). “Emile”, p.407, eKitap Projesi

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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“Life may unfold chronologically for the body and for bureaucracies that keep track of such things as births, marriages, deaths, visas, tax returns, expulsions, and identity cards, but memory does not play this game in quite the same way, always manages to confound the desire for tidiness.”

Source : Ariel Dorfman (2012). “Feeding on Dreams: Confessions of an Unrepentant Exile”, p.9, Melbourne Univ. Publishing
“Interest is never enough. If it doesn't haunt you, you'll never write it well. What haunts and obsesses you may, with luck and labour, interest your readers. What merely interests you is sure to bore them. (from Workbook)”

Source : "Workbook: Memos and Dispatches On Writing". Book by Steven Heighton, 2011.
“This decision is an illustration that freedom of speech still protects average people sitting on a street corner singing.”
“I wasnt interested in novelty. I was looking for good drama.”
“Sigh... I have learned that *everything* is so hard...except what Allah makes easy. So we must *beg* Him to make it easy on us.”
“The future, for me, is romantic, I donâ€™t understand people who say the past is romantic. Romantic, for me, is something you donâ€™t know yet, something you can dream about, something unknown and mystical. That I find fascinating.”
“Knowledge no longer exists if one has ignored the attributes of the Almighty Great Creator.”
“The story of the Khazar Empire, as it slowly emerges from the past, begins to look like the most cruel hoax which history has ever perpetrated.”

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