Wisdom in SpaceThat which we obtain too easily, we esteem too lightly. It is dearness only which gives everything its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price on its goods.
-- Thomas Paine
The point is not for women simply to take power out of men's hands, since that wouldn't change anything about the world. It's a question precisely of destroying that notion of power.
-- Simone de Beauvoir
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The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who, in a time of moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.
-- Dante
If you want to learn about the health of a population, look at the air they breathe, the water they drink, and the places where they live.
-- Hippocrates
Sometimes reading supplies the most cunning of all means of avoiding thought.
-- Joseph Epstein
No serious person is not self-taught.
-- Christopher Hitchens (Article in The Nation on Robert Hughes)
Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.
-- Andre Gide
One shudders at the notion that the Internet could become the least common denominator -- where 'decent' is defined by the Americans, and 'politically correct' by the Chinese.
-- Jacques Gaillot
There is a difference between knowing the path and walking the path.
-- Anonymous
