“I have never let my schooling get in the way of my education.

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.”
– Mark Twain

“Free love? As if love is anything but free! … Love is free; it can dwell in no other atmosphere.

There are…some potentates I would kill by any and all means at my disposal. They are Ignorance, Superstition, and Bigotry — the most sinister and tyrannical rulers on earth.

There is no greater fallacy than the belief that aims and purposes are one thing, while methods and tactics are another. This conception is a potent menace to social regeneration.

The free expression of the hopes and aspirations of a people is the greatest and only safety in a sane society.”
– Emma Goldman

“All creative art is magic, is evocation of the unseen in forms persuasive, enlightening, familiar and surprising, for the edification of mankind, pinned down by the conditions of its existence to the earnest consideration of the most insignificant tides of reality.

The changing wisdom of successive generations discards ideas, questions facts, demolishes theories. But the artist appeals to that part of our being which is not dependent on wisdom: to that in us which is a gift and not an acquisition — and, therefore, more permanently enduring. He speaks to our capacity for delight and wonder, to the sense of mystery surrounding our lives; to our sense of pity, and beauty, and pain; to the latent feeling of fellowship with all creation — and to the subtle but invincible, conviction of solidarity that knits together the loneliness of innumerable hearts: to the solidarity in dreams, in joy, in sorrow, in aspirations, in illusions, in hope, in fear, which binds men to each other, which binds together all humanity — the dead to the living and the living to the unborn.

My task which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel — it is, before all, to make you see. That — and no more, and it is everything. If I succeed, you shall find there according to your deserts: encouragement, consolation, fear, charm — all you demand; and, perhaps, also that glimpse of truth for which you have forgotten to ask.”
– Joseph Conrad (Born December 3, 1857)

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“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
– Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Don’t walk behind me; I may not lead. Don’t walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.”
– Albert Camus

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“All men by nature desire to know.”
– Aristotle

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“Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.”
– Albert Einstein

“Photography is truth.”
– Jean-Luc Godard (Born December 3, 1930)

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“Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings.”
– Heinrich Heine

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“So many books, so little time.”
– Frank Zappa

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
– Mahatma Gandhi