"The great are only great because we are on our knees. Let us rise up."

    -Prudhomme

"O, it is excellent/ To have a giant's strength, but it is tyrannous/ To use it like a giant"

    -Shakespeare (Measure for Measure)

"Light is the left hand of darkness and darkness the right hand of light. Two are one, life and death, lying together like lovers in Kemmer, like hands joined together, like the end and the way." 

    - Ursula Le Guin from "The Left Hand of Darkness"

"It has been said that the great events of the world take place in the brain. It is in the brain, and the brain only, that the great sins of the world take place also."

    -Oscar Wilde

"Our echoes roll from soul to soul,

And grow for ever and for ever

Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying

And answer, echoes, answer, dying, dying, dying."

    -Alfred Tennyson (The Princess)

"My universe is my eyes and my ears. Anything else is hearsay."

    -Douglas Adams (Life, the Universe, and Everything)

"We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in, some of us just go one god further."

- Richard Dawkins

"Memory is the primary and fundamental power, without which there could be no other intellectual operation."

 - Samuel Johnson 

"The best thing for being sad, is to learn something... you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then - to learn"

    - Merlyn from "The Once and Future King", by T.H. White

"Books, the children of the brain" 

 - Jonathan Swift

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