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All her knowledge is gone now. Everything she ever learned, or heard, or saw. Her particular way of looking at Hamlet or daisies or thinking… — Jandy Nelson
Pursue something so important that even if you fail, the world is better off with you having tried. — Tim O'Reilly
The states of birth, suffering, love, and death, are extreme states: extreme, universal, and inescapable. We all know this, but we would rather not know… — James A. Baldwin
Human knowledge is not (or does not follow) a straight line, but a curve, which endlessly approximates a series of circles, a spiral. Any fragment,… — Vladimir Lenin
No other success [in life] can compensate for failure in the home. — David O. McKay
And some things that should not have been forgotten were lost. History became legend. Legend became myth. And for two and a half thousand years,… — J.R.R. Tolkien
But Margaret was at an age when any apprehension, not absolutely based on a knowledge of facts, is easily banished for a time by a… — Elizabeth Gaskell
She began now to comprehend that he was exactly the man who, in disposition and talents, would most suit her. His understanding and temper, though… — Jane Austen
Granny sighed. "You have learned something," she said, and thought it safe to insert a touch of sternness into her voice. "They say a little… — Terry Pratchett
The bitterness of joy lies in the knowledge that is cannot last. Nor should joy last beyond a certain season, for, after that season, even… — Tanith Lee
Is the depressing part that he's only half right - it's not that she doesn't need rescuing but that nobody else will be able to… — Curtis Sittenfeld
The ugly and stupid have the best of it in this world. They can sit at their ease and gape at the play. If they… — Oscar Wilde
Knowledge is a burden if it robs you of innocence. Knowledge is a burden if it is not integrated into life. Knowledge is a burden… — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
A purely mental life may be destructive if it leads us to substitute thought for life and ideas for actions. The activity proper to man… — Thomas Merton
To stand at the edge of the sea, to sense the ebb and flow of the tides, to feel the breath of a mist moving… — Rachel Carson
You instinctively know that nothing will ever be the same, and you have to carry that knowledge around with you like a huge weight. The… — Anthony Kiedis
I'll have mine [The Book-Lovers' Anthology] till the day I die - and die happy in the knowledge that I'm leaving it behind for someone… — Helene Hanff
Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous. — Frank Herbert
Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do."- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe — Anthony Bourdain
So does a whole world, with all its greatnesses and littlenesses, lie in a twinkling star. And as mere human knowledge can split a ray… — Charles Dickens

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