“no person is your friend (or kin) who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow and be perceived as fully blossomed as you were intended.”

― Alice Walker, In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens

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“But anyone who is practically acquainted with scientific work is aware that those who refuse to go beyond fact, rarely get as far as fact;”

― Thomas Henry Huxley, The Advance of Science in the Last Half-Century

“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear—not absence of fear.”

― Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson

“all knowledge and wonder (which is the seed of knowledge) is an impression of pleasure in itself”

― Francis Bacon, The Advancement of Learning

“Man is an idea, and a precious small idea, once he turns his back on love. And that's my point; we, mankind, have lost the capacity for love.”

― Albert Camus, The Plague

“'I don't think—' 'Then you shouldn't talk'”

― Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

“I draw my idea of the form of government from a principle in nature, which no art can overturn, viz. that the more simple any thing is, the less liable it is to be disordered; and the easier repaired when disordered”

― Thomas Paine, Common Sense

“I’m going to keep going until I succeed — or I die. Don’t think I don’t know how this might end. I’ve known it for years.”

― J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

“with how many things are we upon the brink of becoming acquainted, if cowardice or carelessness did not restrain our inquiries.”

― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“Learn from me, if not by my precepts, at least by my example, how dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge and how much happier that man is who believes his native town to be the world, than he who aspires to become greater than his nature will...”

― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“A written word is the choicest of relics. It is something at once more intimate with us and more universal than any other work of art.”

― Henry David Thoreau, Walden

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