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It's not the world that needs to change - it's our consciousness we must raise
Rasheed Ogunlaru
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For hundreds of pages the closely-reasoned arguments unroll, axioms and theorems interlock. And what remains with us in the end? A general sense that the world can be expressed in closely-reasoned arguments, in interlocking axioms and theorems.
Michael Frayn
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I cannot remember a time when I was not enraptured or tortured by words. Always there have been words which, sometimes for their sound alone, sometimes for their sound and sense, I would not use. From a loathing of their grossness or sickliness, their weight or want of weight. Their inexactitude, their feeling of acidity or insipidity. Their action, not only on the intelligence but on the nerves, was instant...
Mary Butts
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It often happens that the quotations constitute the most valuable part of a book.
Vicesimus Knox
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Learning about ourselves is rather inconvenient because it turns the world we live in upside down.
Peter Kingsley (scholar)
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he was undoing the wooden box, and he took out the silver sword. "This is the best of my treasures," he said. "It will bring me luck. And it will bring you luck, because you gave it to me. I don't tell anybody my name - it is not safe. But because you gave me the sword and I didn't borrow it, I will tell you." He whispered. "It is Jan."
Ian Serraillier
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It is the rank and file - the average woman - for whom the world has opened up so astonishingly.
Mary Augusta Ward
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I admit that the generation which produced Stalin, Auschwitz and Hiroshima will take some beating; but the radical and universal consciousness of the death of God is still ahead of us; perhaps we shall have to colonize the stars before it is finally borne in upon us that God is not out there.
R. J. Hollingdale
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I opened the large central window of my office room to its full on the fine early May morning. Then I stood for a few moments, breathing in the soft, warm air that was charged with the scent of white lilacs below.
Angus Wilson
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Professor Dewar
Is a better man than you are,
None of you asses
Can condense gases.
Of James Dewar
Edmund Clerihew Bentley
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I've wandered east, I've wandered west,
Through mony a weary way;
But never, never can forget
The love o' life's young day!
William Motherwell
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I suppose as long as novels last, and authors aim at interesting their public, there must always be in the story a virtuous and gallant hero; a wicked monster, his opposite; and a pretty girl, who finds a champion. Bravery and virtue conquer beauty; and vice, after seeming to triumph through a certain number of pages, is sure to be discomfited in the last volume, when justice overtakes him, and honest folks come by their own.
William Makepeace Thackeray
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If memory survived eternally, then indeed there might be justification for a belief in hell.
Stacy Aumonier
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Guests stay where you've put them, and carry on doing whatever you suggested they do, until you suggest they stop and do something else. If you leave them drinking a cup of tea and looking through your holiday slides, they're supposed to sit tight till you ask them to come and string beans in your kitchen.
Anne Fine
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I wondered what it would be like to die. Was it like going to sleep or like waking up? Was there no more time? Or did time go on forever?
Grace McCleen
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Verse sweetens toil, however rude the sound;
She feels no biting pang the while she sings;
Nor, as she turns the giddy wheel around,
Revolves the sad vicissitudes of things.
Richard Gifford
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Saying you want to escape is the easy part; actually figuring out how to do it is not quite so simple.
Kerry Wilkinson
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Give me the comma of imperfect striving, thus to find zest in the immediate living. Ever the reaching but never the gaining, ever the climbing but never the attaining of the mountain top.
Winston Graham
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I saw the spires of Oxford
As I was passing by,
The grey spires of Oxford
Against a pearl-grey sky;
My heart was with the Oxford men
Who went abroad to die.
Winifred Mary Letts
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Without you ghost ferries would cross the Mersey manned by skeleton crews
Adrian Henri
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Walking about? With a hole in his forehead full of maggots" "Aye. It were like a damn fisherman's tub.
Adam Thorpe
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There is no doubt a new dress is a help under all circumstances.
Noel Streatfeild
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Law is error, you see. It's an attempt to write down a lot of things everyone ought to know anyway.
Nick Harkaway
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Satisfaction, for us, is only a brief thing. The man who acquires wealth does not reach a point where he has enough. Success for us is more like acceleration than speed. Interest cannot be maintained at a constant level.
Neal Asher
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There is an immeasurable distance between submission to the cross and acceptance of it.
Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna
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