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“Intellect distinguishes between the possible and the impossible; reason distinguishes between the sensible and the senseless. Even the possible can be senseless.”
― My Life and My Views
― My Life and My Views
“If our best-educated citizens have no idea how to answer these basic questions, we will struggle to build a democracy that can solve the problems we face, whether they are what to do about climate change, the world’s poor, the problems of Australia’s Indigenous people, or the prospect of a future in which we can genetically modify our offspring. An education in the humanities is as valuable today as it was in Plato’s time.”
― Ethics in the Real World: 86 Brief Essays on Things that Matter
― Ethics in the Real World: 86 Brief Essays on Things that Matter
“I had heard the nails being driven into the nails of her coffin, but I couldn't adjust to the fact that she had returned to nothingness.”
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“How could a peacock lust for a lion?”
― Shadowfever
― Shadowfever
“She was a ray of sunshine, a warm summer rain, a bright fire on a cold winter’s day, and now she could be dead because she had tried to save the man she loved.”
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