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People like ourselves may see nothing wondrous in writing, but our anthropologists know how strange and magical it appears to a purely oral people -… — Neil Postman
Once you are enlightened, you can do whatever you want without fear or sorrow. You can go snowboarding, get married, stay single, be rich and… — Frederick Lenz
I offer you the possibilities of immortality, a pathway that leads beyond the known and the unknown, few follow it. — Frederick Lenz
Most people are fragile. They're fragile in the sense that they're afraid of the unknown, so they cling to each other. They cling to families,… — Frederick Lenz
The challenge before us is to savor the unknown and delight in the taste of possibility. — Mary Anne Radmacher
For me, if the music is good, whether the artist is famous or unknown, I love being part of the music and contributing what I… — Tony Levin
I've always loved comic books. As a kid, I used to read cowboy stories and historical comics about other worlds, unknown places that would take… — James Herbert
Spiritual knowledge is like a house built in the midst of secular and pagan knowledge, in which there is laid up, like a solid and… — Symeon the New Theologian
There are times when I, without willing it, mount to the height of contemplation; with my will I am drawn down from it because of… — Symeon the New Theologian
Mystery has great power. In the many years I have worked with people with cancer, I have seen Mystery comfort people when nothing else can… — Rachel Naomi Remen
From the standpoint of our spiritual development, it might be important for us to realize that we came from an unknown somewhere; we brought with… — John Templeton
Astronomers have built telescopes which can show myriads of stars unseen before; but when a man looks through a tear in his own eye, that… — Henry Ward Beecher
... We must remember that there's more than one story and plot in every novel. There are at least as many stories as there are… — Walter Mosley
Muddle is the extra unknown personality in any committee. — Anthony Sampson
Seeing is believing and believing is knowing and knowing beats unknowing and the unknown. — Philip Roth
Besides the pleasure derived from acquired knowledge, there lurks in the mind of man, and tinged with a shade of sadness, an unsatisfactory longing for… — Wilhelm von Humboldt
We must prepare and study truth under every aspect, endeavoring to ignore nothing, if we do not wish to fall into the abyss of the… — H. P. Blavatsky
Apart from the known and the unknown, what else is there? — Harold Pinter
Many things are unknown to the wisest, and the best men can never wholly divest themselves of passions and affections... nothing can or ought to… — Algernon Sidney
This socialism will develop in all its phases until it reaches its own extremes and absurdities. Then once again a cry of denial will break… — Alexander Herzen

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