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"That we can comprehend the little we know already is mindboggling in itself."	Tom Gates
"My friends and my road-fellows, pity the nation that is full of beliefs and empty of religion. "Pity the nation that wears a cloth it does not weave, eats a bread it does not harvest, and drinks a wine that flows not from its own winepress. "Pity the nation that acclaims the bully as hero, and that deems the glittering conqueror bountiful. "Pity the nation that raises not its voice save when it walks in a funeral, boasts not except among its ruins, and will rebel not save when its neck is laid between the sword and the block. "Pity the nation whose statesman is a fox, whose philosopher is a juggler, and whose art is the art of patching and mimicking. "Pity the nation that welcomes its new ruler with trumpetings, and farewells him with hootings, only to welcome another with trumpetings again. "Pity the nation divided into fragments, each fragment deeming itself a nation."	Kahlil Gibran
"To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to do."	Kahlil Gibran
"We live at the level of our language. Whatever we can articulate we can imagine or explore. All you have to do to educate a child is leave him alone and teach him to read. The rest is brainwashing."	Ellen Gilcrist
"All truly wise thoughts have been thoughts already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience."	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"The ground that a good man treads is hallowed."	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if it were possible, speak a few reasonable words."	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"I never believed in trying to do anything. Whatever I set out to do I found I had already accomplished."	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience."	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Who never ate his bread in sorrow, Who never spent the darksome hours Weeping, and watching for the morrow,-- He knows ye not, ye gloomy Powers."	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be."	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"I once read that the only way to enjoy life is to observe everything with a sense of detached amusement. I don't always do that, but it serves you well to keep it in mind."	Bryant Gumbel
"What is Jordan that I should wash in it? What is the preaching that I should attend on it, while I hear nothing but what I knew before? What are these beggarly elements of water, bread, and wine? Are not these the reasonings of a soul that forgets who appoints the means of grace?"	William Gurnall
"Thank you for sending me a copy of your book - I'll waste no time reading it."	Moses Hadas
"The anthropologists are busy, indeed, and ready to transport us back into the savage forest where all human things … have their beginnings; but the seed never explains the flower."	Edith Hamilton
"It is books that are a key to the wide world; if you can't do anything else, read all that you can."	Jane Hamilton
"Whenever you read a good book, it's like the author is right there, in the room, talking to you, which is why I don't like to read good books."	Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts]
"If you're a cowboy, and you're dragging a guy behind your horse, I bet it would really make you mad if you looked back and the guy was reading a magazine."	Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts]
"If I ever do a book on the Amazon, I hope I am able to bring a certain lightheartedness to the subject, in a way that will tell the reader we are going to have fun with this thing."	Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts]
"If your friend is already dead, and being eaten by vultures, I think it's okay to feed some bits of your friend to one of the vultures, to teach him to do some tricks. But ONLY if you're serious about adopting the vulture."	Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts]
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