"Intellectual freedom is essential -- freedom to obtain and distribute information, freedom for open-minded and unfearing debate and freedom from pressure by officialdom and prejudices. Such freedom of thought is the only guarantee against an infection of people by mass myths, which, in the hands of treacherous hypocrites and demagogues, can be transformed into bloody dictatorship."

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Source : Andrei D. Sakharov (1968). “Progress, coexistence, and intellectual freedom”

Andrei Sakharov

#Hypocrite Quotes #Hands Quotes #People Quotes

“There were certain things, learned so young and remembered so deep that they felt like little stones in the center of her mind.”

Source : Hugh Howey (2013). “Wool”, p.270, Simon and Schuster
“The long sleep of Mother Goddess is ended. May She awaken in each of our hearts - Merry meet, merry part, and blessed be.”

Source : "Womanspirit Rising: A Feminist Reader in Religion". Book by Carol P. Christ and Judith Plaskow, 1979.
“Before you become too entranced with gorgeous gadgets and mesmerizing video displays, let me remind you that information is not knowledge, knowledge is not wisdom, and wisdom is not foresight. Each grows out of the other, and we need them all.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I'm a Harry Potter fan.”
“I would assume that everyone has an experience in their life where they knew something wasn't cool, but even if they sort of removed themselves from it, they didn't totally stop it and become a hero.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“I have a really simple wardrobe. I wear a low-scoop tee every day with a tux or leather jacket and tux pants or black jeans. That's pretty much it.”

Source : "Best New Designers: Meet Johan Lindeberg (Again)". Interview with Andrew Richdale, www.gq.com. April 12, 2012.
“I can hear the library humming in the night, a choir of authors murmuring inside their books along the unlit, alphabetical shelves, Giovanni Pontano next to Pope, Dumas next to his son, each one stitched into his own private coat, together forming a low, gigantic chord of language.”
“Human beings are not like they are portrayed in Hollywood. They are individuals who are a mixture of good and bad.”

Source : Source: www.blackfive.net

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