“No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot.”

― Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend

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“Now in many cases—too many cases—the activity of the immature human being is simply played upon to secure habits which are useful. He is trained like an animal rather than educated like a human being.”

― John Dewey, Democracy and Education

“The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labour. War is a way of shattering to pieces, or pouring into the stratosphere, or sinking in the depths of the sea, materials which might...”

― George Orwell, 1984

“Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.”

― William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience

“Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.”

― Plato, The Republic

“Listen up—there's no war that will end all wars . . . War breeds war.”

― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting”

― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“My heart laments that virtue cannot live out of the teeth of emulation.”

― William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

“That's the reason they're called lessons . . . because they lessen from day to day.”

― Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

“But you're able to hear, I reckon; leastways, your ears is big enough.”

― Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island

“People should fall in love with their eyes closed. Just close your eyes.”

― Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol

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