"What sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which every one else is reading."

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Source : Alice James (1934). “Her Brothers Her Journal”

Alice James

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“An unexamined idea, to paraphrase Socrates, is not worth having and a society whose ideas are never explored for possible error may eventually find its foundations insecure.”

Source : Mark Van Doren (1954*). “Man's right to knowledge and the free use thereof”
“This new (technology) that is so transforming our world and economy is not going to work unless it works for everyone.”
“All my life, since the time I was little, has been a long distraction. At least that is the way some people want to perceive it, but for me, it's given me a lot of strength.”
“This usually happens in the white-collar classes: These people take to worshipping pointlessness. Examples are Twin Peaks, Christo's artwork, and academic liberal politics. But a strange thing happens; these people view their ultra pointlessness as a way of being like God.”
“I actually have no aspirations to ride a motorcycle ever again. Its exhausting. You get cold.”
“â€ŽThere is a place where voices sing your beauty, A place where every breath carves your image in my soul.”
“Perhaps out there, somewhere, someone is sighing for your absence; and with this thought, my soul begins to breathe.”
“God is either your worst enemy or your best friend.”

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