The university's business is the conservation of useless knowledge; and what the university itself apparently fails to see is that this enterprise is not only noble but indispensable as well, that society can not exist unless it goes on. ~Albert J. Nock
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It was only the vulgarly mediocre that repelled her. ~Ivan Turgenev
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The tragedy of ignorance is its complacency. ~Robert Quillen
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I had somehow always thought of the classics of literature as something apart from me, something to do with academic life and not something you enjoyed. ~Alan Bennett
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An author must be nothing if he do not love truth; a barrister must be nothing if he do. ~Anthony Trollope
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Alone, the world offers itself freely to us. To be unmasked, it has no choice. ~Tom Robbins
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Oh simple thing, where have you gone? I am getting old and I need something to rely on. So tell me when you are going to let me in. I am getting tired and I need somewhere to begin. ~Bil Keane
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Each person we meet has the potential to teach us something. ~John C. Maxwell
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Braniac dumb-dumbs, bust the scientifical.
Approach to the course and the force is centrifugal. Can you find your way through the lyrics that be catching them? Throw another rhyme across the room, they be fetching them. ~Masta Ace
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I am sitting in a cage with my eye upon the clock. ~Ray Davies
#quotes #ray-davies #time

Few industries have the ability to transform society like tech, yet too few companies are asking the questions or working on the problems that would create meaningful social change. ~Mitch Kapor
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He that will have his son have respect for him and his orders, must himself have a great reverence for his son. ~John Locke
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Extremism can flourish only in an environment where basic governmental social responsibility for the welfare of the people is neglected. Political dictatorship and social hopelessness create the desperation that fuels religious extremism. ~Benazir Bhutto
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I love luxury, I love the high life, and I have to foot the bills. I have received practically nothing from my marriages and relationships. ~Britt Ekland
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Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The unexpected stalks a farm in big boots like a vagrant bent on havoc. Not every farmer is an inventor, but the good ones have the seeds of invention within them. Economy and efficiency move their relentless tinkering and yet the real motive often seems to be aesthetic. The mind that first designed a cutter bar is not far different from a mind that can take the intractable steel of an outsized sickle blade and make it hum in the end. The question is how to reduce the simplicity that constitutes a problem to the greater simplicity that constitutes a solution. ~Verlyn Klinkenborg
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Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence. ~Plato
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What is so real as the cry of a child? A rabbit's cry may be wilder but it has no soul. ~Sylvia Plath
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The one thing an aspiring writer must understand is that it's hard. If you think it's not hard, you're not doing it right. ~Gene Weingarten
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Every parent has gone through a period when their child was not so happy with them. ~Elizabeth Edwards
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To learn a belief without the belief is to sing a song without the tune. ~Ursula K. Le Guin
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Skill and confidence are an unconquered army. ~George Herbert
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It was the Almighty who decreed that men and women must cover their nakedness by wearing proper and modest clothing. No amount of rationalizing can change God's laws. No amount of fashion designing can turn immodesty into virtue, and no amount of popularity can change sin into righteousness. ~Mark E. Petersen
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The most lasting and pure gladness comes to me from my gardens. ~Lillie Langtry
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Some may claim that is it unscientific to speak of the operations of nature as miracles. But the point of the title lies in the paradox of finding so many wonderful things subservient to the rule of law. ~Elisha Gray
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