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“It's not facts that hurt people, it's their attitude towards facts.”

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This book delves into philosophical and existential questions, intertwining the human experience with the vastness of the universe. more

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Gwethalyn Graham

Gwethalyn Graham was a Canadian writer known for her novels and poetry. Born on January 18, 1913, and passing away on November 25, 1965, Graham's works often explored social and moral issues, deeply influenced by Indigenous Canadian culture. more

“There is nothing in the education of the average non-scientific human being to discourage him from the habit of generalizing from little or no evidence, and worse still and far more important, nothing to discourage him from the habit of starting with a generalization and ending up with the individual, instead of the other way round.”

Way Humans Littles Stills Important Individual Human Beings Habit Evidence Rounds Starting Average Discouraging Generalization

Book:Earth and High Heaven

Source: Earth and High Heaven

“If you choose to turn your back, you don't really have a say in what goes on behind it.”

Ifs Turns Behinds Ignorance Goes On You Choose

Author:Gwethalyn Graham

“A Jew describes another Jew simply as a human being; a Gentile describes him, first and foremost, as a Jew.”

Firsts Humans Human Beings Jew Gentiles

Book:Earth and High Heaven

Source: Earth and High Heaven

“One doesn't expect justice from life ... it's the function of human beings to put it there.”

Humans Justice Human Beings Function

Author:Gwethalyn Graham

“I don't want to get married ... I'm certainly not going to give up the work I've wanted to do all my life for the sake of it, any more than I'd expect my husband, if he were a doctor or a lawyer, for example, to give up practising medicine or law in order to marry me.”

Ifs Want Giving Wanted Law Order Marriage Example Husband Giving Up Married Doctors Medicine Sake Lawyer My Husband Marry Me

Author:Gwethalyn Graham

“for every person who's stepped out of line and lived to regret it, there are two people who stayed in line because they got their values mixed and lost their nerve, and who have lived to regret it still more. You don't hear about those people because they're still in line where they don't show.”

People Persons Stills Two Shows Values Lost Lines Risk Regret Nerves

Author:Gwethalyn Graham

“For every individual who really is exceptional there are about fifty thousand who just imagine they are - until it's too late, and they find out they aren't after all.”

Individual Imagine Thousand Late Fifty Too Late Exceptional

Book:Earth and High Heaven

Source: Earth and High Heaven

“There is nothing in the world so dangerous, or so overwhelming as stupidity; perhaps there is no more of it now than there has been at any time, but I do not think the witless of past generations had so much power. The powers of darkness are the powers of misdirected knowledge.”

Thinking World Has Beens Past Darkness Generations Dangerous Stupidity Overwhelming Past Generations

Author:Gwethalyn Graham

“there are people who are born superficial ... They prefer not to have to deal with more than a limited number of oversimplified ideas - they prefer the book reviews to the books, the headlines and the leading paragraph to the full report, the generalization to the facts, and the negative to the positive.”

People Book Ideas Facts Born Deals Numbers Negative Reports Reviews Superficial Headlines Paragraph Generalization Superficiality Book Review

Book:Earth and High Heaven

Source: Earth and High Heaven

“Holy Scripture is so exalted that there is no one in the world ... wise enough to understand it so fully that his intellect is not overcome by it. Nevertheless, man can stammer something about it.”

Men World Enough Wise Holy Bible Overcoming Intellect Scripture Nevertheless Exalted Holy Scriptures

Author:Angela of Foligno

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