What have we all got to expect that we allow ourselves to be so lined with disappointment? - Graham Greene

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Mt. Everest of Earth is 8. 8 km tall; Mt. Olympus of Mars is 22 km tall. Every time you see a giant, you must know that that giant might be just a dwarf somewhere else!

Graham Greene

What have we all got to expect that we allow ourselves to be so lined with disappointment?

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Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt

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He was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance.

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Mt. Everest of Earth is 8. 8 km tall; Mt. Olympus of Mars is 22 km tall. Every time you see a giant, you must know that that giant might be just a dwarf somewhere else!

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William James

So you see that the process of education, taken in a large way, may be described as nothing but the process of acquiring ideas or conceptions, the best educated mind being the mind which has the largest stock of them, ready to meet the largest possible variety of the emergencies of life. The lack of education means only the failure to have acquired them, and the consequent liability to be 'floored' and 'rattled' in the vicissitudes of experience.

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How beggarly appear arguments before a defiant deed!

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We are a country of excess. So it's not the violence, per se, but the exacerbation and constant repetition.

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My mother was a Bohemian - in the good sense of the word. A searcher. And she investigated various religions.

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