It is startling to realize how much unbelief is necessary to make belief possible. What we know as blind faith is sustained by innumerable unbeliefs.
~ Eric Hoffer
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The artist says to the cosmos: All I ask is infinite love – is that so very wrong? And the cosmos doesn’t even bother to respond.
~ John Lanchester
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With rebellion, awareness is born.
~ Albert Camus
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Philosophies can be judged, at most, on the grounds of the perspicacity with which they decide that something is worthy of becoming the starting point for a global explanatory hypothesis.
~ Umberto Eco
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There is no friend as loyal as a book.
~ Ernest Hemingway
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Let me recite what history teaches. History teaches.
~ Gertrude Stein
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Clocks slay time. Time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.
~ William Faulkner
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Nowhere has democracy ever worked well without a great measure of local self-government, providing a school of political training for the people at large as much as for their future leaders.
~ Friedrich Hayek
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In economics, unlike fiction and the theater, there is no harm in a premature disclosure of the plot: it is to see the changes just mentioned and others as an interlocked whole.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
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He who knows does not speak; he who speaks does not know.
~ Lao Zi
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