"A poet may be a good companion, but, so far as I know, he is ever the worst of fathers."

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Source : Irving Bacheller (2008). “D'ri and I”, p.1, ReadHowYouWant.com

Irving Bacheller

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“For although there is not a single aspect of European growth in which the decisive influence of Islamic culture is not traceable, nowhere is it so clear and momentous as in the genesis of that power which constitutes the permanent distinctive force of the modern world, and the supreme source of its victory, natural science and the scientific spirit.”
“In New York we have streets exploding and innocent Buddhist girls being stabbed in the neck and cabdrivers refusing to help her. If we happen into a nightclub by mistake, when we leave the doorman will be lying in the street surrounded by police.”

Source : Cynthia Heimel (2002). “If You Can't Live Without Me, Why Aren't You Dead Yet?!”, p.41, Grove Press
“I'm a babe in the woods when it comes to the Internet.”
“Sow a seed and the earth will yield you a flower. Dream your dream to the sky and it will bring you your beloved.”
“In a free society, how can you commit a crime against yourself?”
“Public depictions of women still tend to remain rigid and narrow - about the size of a coffin, say.”

Source : Joan Frank (1994). “Desperate Women Need to Talk to You”, p.51, Conari Press
“I made the assumption, wrong of course, that conceptual analysis was a brief preliminary on the road to finding out about the nature of free will, consciousness, the self, the origin of values, and so forth.”

Source : "Causal machines". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. April 10, 2012.
“In this media-drenched, data-rich, channel-surfing, computer-gaming age, we have lost the art of doing nothing, of shutting out the background noise and distractions, of slowing down and simply being alone with our thoughts.”

Source : Carl Honoré (2004). “In praise of slow: how a worldwide movement is challenging the cult of speed”, A.A. Knopf Canada

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