"The mere understanding, however useful and indispensable, is……" — Thomas de Quincey

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• The rise to prominence of the Saudi novel in Arabic is the great man-bites-dog of recent world literature. Saudi Arabia… — James Buchan
• Plato used the dialogue format because the exchange of views, the posing and answering of questions, showed that understanding is… — John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough
• Say nothing good of yourself, you will be distrusted; say nothing bad of yourself, you will be taken at your… — Philibert Joseph Roux
• To the contrary: His life hummed with meaning and purpose. But the meaning he wrestled from existence lay beyond the… — Jon Krakauer
• I didn't want to work. It was as simple as that. I distrusted work, disliked it. I thought it was… — Agatha Christie
• I envied those who could believe in a God and I distrusted them. I felt they were keeping their courage… — Graham Greene
• The world is divided into those who screw and those who do not. He distrusted those who did not—when they… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
• I am twenty years old. To a world-wise adult, I am little more than a child. To any child, however,… — Dean Koontz
• These three ladies disliked and distrusted one another as heartily as the First Triumvirate of Rome, and their close alliance… — Margaret Mitchell
• All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree. — James Madison
• I have always distrusted memoir. I tend to write my memoirs through my fiction. It's easier to get to the… — Armistead Maupin

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