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Quote by Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“The biggest mistake you can make in your life is to be always afraid of making a mistake.”

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German pastor, theologian, philosopher, and member of the resistance against the Nazis. Born on February 4, 1906, in Germany, he was executed on April 9, 1945 in a concentration camp. more

“It is only when someone cannot defend his opinion, and is not interested in believing the truth, that he will attempt to stifle discussion with good manners. Those who take religion, politics and sex seriously do not adhere to the general prohibition on discussing these topics. And they do not take offence when they are shown to be wrong. If you start to feel during a discussion, that you are not so much incorrect as insensitive, then you are probably dealing with a respectable bigot.”

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Author:Jamie Whyte

“A scientific approach means knowing what one knows and what one doesn't. Absolute or complete knowledge is unscientific.”

Knows Mean Knowing Approach Absolutes

Author:Karl Jaspers

“Anyone who sees the realism in Lynch truly understand poetry!”

Realism

Author:Armond White

“There has to be a common sense cutoff for craziness, and when that threshold is exceeded, then the criteria for publication should get far, far more stringent.”

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Author:Douglas Hofstadter

“Save in the office and affairs of love.”

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Author:Claudio Sanchez

“I am that merry wanderer of the night.”

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Book:The plays and poems of William Shakspeare

Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare

“Follow your breathing, dwell mindfully on your steps, and soon you will find your balance.”

Steps Balance Breathing

Book:Happiness (EasyRead Edition)

Source: Happiness (EasyRead Edition)

“... one of the things the tyrant most cunningly engineers is the gross over-simplification of language, because propaganda requires that the minds of the collective respond primitively to slogans of incitement.”

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Author:Geoffrey Hill

“[For American consumer society], the country's reserves of ignorance constitute a natural resource as precious as the Mississippi River or the long-lost herds of buffalo.”

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Author:Lewis H. Lapham

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