"Without knowledge action is useless and knowledge without action is futile."

-- Abu Bakr

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“The Seventh Day Adventist Church believes that it was specially chosen by God to prepare the world for the Second Coming of His Son Jesus.”
“If a serious statement is defined as one that may be made in terms of waking life, poetry will never rise to the level of seriousness. It lies beyond seriousness, on that more primitive and original level where the child, the animal, the savage, and the seer belong, in the region of dream, enchantment, ecstasy, laughter. To understand poetry we must be capable of donning the child's soul like a magic cloak and of forsaking man's wisdom for the child's.”
“The major thing I'm afraid of is being 65 and saying, 'Gee, I wish I had done this and that, and that.' I want to face old age knowing I've tried all I wanted to try.”
“True politeness is to social life what oil is to machinery, a thing to oil the ruts and grooves of existence. False politeness can shine without warming and glitter without vivifying.”

Source : Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Frances Smith Foster (1990). “A Brighter Coming Day: A Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Reader”, p.397, Feminist Press at CUNY
“That though we are certain of many things, yet that Certainty is no absolute Infallibility, there still remains the possibility of our being mistaken in all matters of humane Belief and Inquiry.”

Source : Joseph Glanvill (1979). “Collected Works of Joseph Glanvill”, Georg Olms Verlag
“Physical ills are the taxes laid upon this wretched life; some are taxed higher, and some lower, but all pay something.”
“Not having heard something is not as good as having heard it; having heard it is not as good as having seen it; having seen it is not as good as knowing it; knowing it is not as good as putting it into practice.”

Source : Xunzi (1994). “Xunzi: Books 7-16”, p.81, Stanford University Press
“If love were endless, if it were on tap, it wouldn't hit us the way it does. And we certainly wouldn't write about it.”

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