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The arc of every human life is measured out by the ceaseless accumulation of knowledge. Requiring only awareness and yet always welcoming curiosity, the transmission of knowledge into the sentient mind is an uninterruptible process of
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“I was a boy, which meant I was a murderer of my childhood.”
― Time Is a Mother
― Time Is a Mother
“The thing was not to get to know any of them, if possible. Once you know your neighbours, you are no longer free, you are all tangled up, you have to stop and speak when you are out and you never feel safe when you are in.”
― Crewe Train
― Crewe Train
“There's something about being told you're worthy from another person that feels better than when you tell yourself in a mirror.”
― Harriet Tubman: Live in Concert
― Harriet Tubman: Live in Concert
“Religion is the biggest scam on the face of the planet, followed closely by higher education in America.”
― Harriet Tubman: Live in Concert
― Harriet Tubman: Live in Concert
“The great man say that life is pain,” Coydog had said over eighty-five years before. “That mean if you love life, then you love the hurt come along wit’ it. Now, if that ain’t the blues, I don’t know what is.”
― The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey
― The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey
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