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“Some paradox of our natures leads us, when once we have made our fellow men the objects of our enlightened interest, to go on to make them the objects of our pity , then of our wisdom , ultimately of our coercion.”
Source : Lionel Trilling (2012). “The Liberal Imagination”, p.221, New York Review of Books
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“That's my tag, whether I like it or not.”
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“[On parents:] They're not gods to be pleased or devils to be exorcised. They're just there, and we can only hope they understand when we seem less than perfect. And try to understand, ourselves, when they're not all we'd like them to be.”
Source : Helen Van Slyke (1988). “Helen Van Slyke, three complete novels”, Random House Value Pub
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“Le coeur a ses raisons que la raison ne connait point. French. Pascal. The heart has its reasons, whereof reason knows nothing.”
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“Always when you are about to say anything, first weigh it in your mind; for with many the tongue outruns the thought.”
Source : Isocrates (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Isocrates (Illustrated)”, p.19, Delphi Classics
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“We're flooding people with information. We need to feed it through a processor. A human must turn information into intelligence or knowledge.”
Source : "The Wit and Wisdom of Grace Hopper". The OCLC Newsletter, No. 167, www.cs.yale.edu. March/April 1987.
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“I don't think poetry is something that can be taught. We can encourage young writers, but what you can't teach them is the very essence of poetry.”
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“People know who I am, but I'm feeling so lonely in the middle area, because I feel like I should be at the top.”