"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance -- it is the illusion of knowledge."

Boorstin, Daniel J. on obstacles
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"Slaves lose everything in their chains, even the desire of escaping from them."

Rousseau, Jean Jacques on slavery
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"It is better that ten guilty persons escape than one innocent suffer"

Blackstone, Sir William on suffering   

"We are made for larger ends than Earth can encompass. Oh, let us be true to our exalted destiny."

Booth, Catherine on destiny   

"Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art."

Sontag, Susan on science   

"One threatens the innocent who spares the guilty."

Coke, Sir Edward on innocence   

"It is well for the heart to be naive and the mind not to be."

France, Anatole on innocence   

"There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify -- so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish."

Keats, John on nature   

"The cemetery of the victims of human cruelty in our century is extended to include yet another vast cemetery, that of the unborn."

John Paul II on abortion
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"Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God."

Bacon, Francis on atheism
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"Atheism is rather in the lip than in the heart of man."

Bacon, Francis on atheism   

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"If ignorance is bliss, why aren't more people jumping up and down for joy."

Unknown, Source on ignorance   

"Hollywood is a place that attracts people with massive holes in their souls."

Phillips, Julia on hollywood   

"Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy gets the Catholic Church. America gets Hollywood."

Jong, Erica on entertainment
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"Intuition is the clear concept of the whole at once."

Lavater, Johann Kaspar on intuition   

"An ounce of intuition is worth a pound of tuition."

Unknown, Source on intuition   

"Intuition is a spiritual faculty and does not explain, but simply points the way."

Shinn, Florence Scovel on intuition
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"It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one another, but from God only."

Blake, William on angels
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"A man does not have to be an angel in order to be a saint."

Schweitzer, Albert on angels
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"There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous."

Pascal, Blaise on sin
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"Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric."

Russell, Bertrand on opinions
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"The world thinks eccentricity in great things is genius, but in small things, only crazy."

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G. on eccentricity
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"Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you."

Wilde, Oscar on wealth
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"Every one comes between men's souls and God, either as a brick wall or as a bridge. Either you are leading men to God or you are driving them away."

Dewar, Canon Lindsay on influence
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"Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as wind extinguishes candles and fans a fire."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on absence
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"Fame is no sanctuary from the passing of youth... suicide is much easier and more acceptable in Hollywood than growing old gracefully."

Burchill, Julie on hollywood   

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."

Clarke, Arthur C. on vision
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"Technology... the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it."

Frisch, Max on technology
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"Why is it when we talk to God, we're praying, but when God talks to us, we're schizophrenic?"

Tomlin, Lily on prayer
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"Talk unbelief, and you will have unbelief; but talk faith, and you will have faith. According to the seed sown will be the harvest."

White, Ellen Gould on faith
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"Pray don't talk to me about the weather, Mr. Worthing. Whenever people talk to me about the weather, I always feel quite certain that they mean something else."

Wilde, Oscar on weather
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"Every waking moments we talk to ourselves about the things we experience. Our self-talk, the thoughts we communicate to ourselves, in turn control the way we feel and act."

Lembo, John on self-talk   

"There are people who think that wrestling is an ignoble sport. Wrestling is not sport, it is a spectacle, and it is no more ignoble to attend a wrestled performance of suffering than a performance of the sorrows of Arnolphe or Andromaque."

Barthes, Roland on sports   

"Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence."

Asch, Sholem on memory
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"Death is a shadow that always follows the body."

Proverb, English on death
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"When walking through the valley of shadows, remember, a shadow is cast by a Light."

Barclay, H.K. on adversity
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"The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world."

Cohen, Leonard on insomnia
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"Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom."

Bacon, Francis on wisdom
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"Death -- the last sleep? No, it is the final awakening."

Scott, Sir Walter on death
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"Glory is the shadow of virtue."

Proverb, Latin on glory