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To be well-educated is to have the desire as well as the means to make sure that learning never ends.
It pays in England to be a revolutionary and a bible-smacker most of one's life, and then come round.
That's the penalty we have to pay for our acts of foolishness - someone else always suffers for them.
You have to steal back yourself. You have to steal back your own mind. Meditation helps in that area.
The long-term accommodation that protects marriage and other such relationships is ... forgetfulness.
I'm pore, I'm black, I may be ugly and can't cook, a voice say to everything listening. But I'm here.
We must do everything in our power to cease the behaviour that makes children everywhere feel afraid.
Every decent con man knows that the simplest truth is more powerful than even the most elaborate lie.
Four hundred years of losing out on the girl of my dreams isn't sitting very well with me these days.
You can’t go back, Ever. You can’t change the past. It just is. . . . This is our destiny. Not yours.
It means you got your glow on." He smiled, hovering right alongside me. "It means you're on your way.
What is forgotten, however, is that many times the Good we create leads to Evil that will destroy us.
I am a voracious reader, so it's difficult for me to give a list of my favourite authors of all time.
There is no teacher equal to mother and there's nothing more contagious than the dignity of a father.
Parents must get across the idea that "I love you always, but sometimes I do not love your behavior."
Create a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. And then love will come to you, then it comes to you.
I will always be the virgin-prostitute, the perverse angel, the two-faced sinister and saintly woman.
The unknown was my compass. The unknown was my encyclopedia. The unnamed was my science and progress.
Perhaps a child, like a cat, is so much inside of himself that he does not see himself in the mirror.
The minds of different generations are as impenetrable one by the other as are the monads of Leibniz.
The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.
If you value a man's regard, strive with him. As to liking, you like your newspaper - and despise it.
I thought my father had forgotten about me. But I realised that he missed me as much as I missed him.
His lashes, fluttered like butterfly wings. "I could've made you happy, dove." "You did," I whispered
You ever have that feeling? Like you’ve known someone your whole life but you don’t know them at all.
Interviewer: "Didn't [Sagan] want to believe?" Druyan: "He didn't want to believe. He wanted to know.
No single step in the persuit of enlightenment should ever be considered sacred; only the search was.
In this life we love who we love. There were some stories in which facts were very nearly irrelevant.
We are taught to be suspicious, especially of anyone who might not look like us or share our beliefs.
I used to do everything to keep a wall up around myself and keep my life quiet so that I could write.
One act of beneficence, one act of real usefulness, is worth all the abstract sentiment in the world.
You can hate a person with your whole body, but love is a stubborn thing, it clings on in your heart.
When I write a novel, I have what I think of as an icon that helps get me into the world of the book.
Anyone who doubts that caffeine is a drug should read some of the prose composed under its influence.
Whoever doesn't know it must learn and find by experience that 'a quiet conscience makes one strong!'
A good library can provide the furniture of our minds and the threads from which we weave our dreams.
We have not yet encountered any god who is as merciful as a man who flicks a beetle over on its feet.
People looked to Kurt Cobain because his songs captured what they felt before they knew they felt it.
The first step toward changing the world is to change our vision of the world and of our place in it.
To be ready is one thing, to be able to wait is another; but to seize the right moment is everything.
You never so much want to be happy with a woman as when you know that you're ceasing to care for her.
When I'm outside the cities I do feel optimistic. There is such grandeur in India and so much beauty.
Just because I accept you as you are does not mean that I have given up all hope of your improvement.
There are some things children cannot know, because once they learn them they are no longer children.
The computer brings out the uptight perfectionist in us - we start editing ideas before we have them.
Art that only comes from the head isn't any good. Watch any good musician and you'll see what I mean.
When you get past fifty, you have to decide whether to keep your face or your figure. I kept my face.
By and large, people who enjoy teaching animals to roll over will find themselves happier with a dog.
Love is what makes two people sit in the middle of a bench when there is plenty of room at both ends.
stereotypes are awfully misleading. There are typical librarians, but not all librarians are typical.