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“...it's just as bad to live in a place where what you do see isn't there as it is to live in one where what you don't see is.”
― The Phantom Tollbooth
― The Phantom Tollbooth
“Count Hermann Keyserling once said truly that the greatest American superstition was belief in facts.”
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“O, with what freshness, what solemnity and beauty, is each new day born; as if to say to insensate man, "Behold! thou hast one more chance! Strive for immortal glory!”
― Uncle Tom’s Cabin
― Uncle Tom’s Cabin
“What keeps the world from reverting to the Neanderthal with each generation is the continuing, ongoing mythos... the huge body of common knowledge that unites our minds as cells are united in the body of man...”
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“I have since often observed, how incongruous and irrational the common temper of mankind is, especially of youth, to that reason which ought to guide them in such cases—viz. that they are not ashamed to sin, and yet are ashamed to repent; not ashamed of the action for which they ought justly to be esteemed fools, but are ashamed of the returning, which only can make them be esteemed wise men.”
― Robinson Crusoe
― Robinson Crusoe
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