"Journeys are the midwives of thought. Few places……" — Alain de Botton

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• Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive… — Albert Camus
• When I was with the Labor Party, I'd get into trouble because the party bosses determined that some of what… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali
• Women, who are a majority of the peoples of the earth, are indispensable to the accumulation of the kind of… — Mahnaz Afkhami
• PUSH, n. One of the two things mainly conducive to success, especially in politics. The other is Pull. — Ambrose Bierce
• Arts, crafts and sciences uplift the world of being, and are conducive to its exaltation. Knowledge is as wings to… — Bahá'u'lláh
• With regard to the learned professions, little need be observed; they truly form no distinct interest in society . .… — Alexander Hamilton
• If I had ever, in any medium, seen any researcher or popularizer refer even once to any supposedly ay-producing circumstance… — Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
• There are few efforts more conducive to humility than that of the translator trying to communicate an incommunicable beauty. Yet,… — Edith Hamilton
• He talks about the Scylla of Atheism and the Charybdis of Christianity - a state of mind which, by the… — Norman Douglas
• The book, that stubbornly unelectric artifact of pure typography, possesses resources conducive to the flourishing of the soul. A thoughtful… — Douglas Groothuis
• English literature is a kind of training in social ethics. English trains you to handle a body of information in… — Marilyn Butler
• When the door shuts another opens. He that would struggle with the world, and bear up in adversity, ought still… — Samuel Palmer

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