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“There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.”
― Hippocrates

“Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.”
― Gustave Flaubert

“Benjamin Britten’s “Hymn to the Virgin”
― Anonymous

“Only in silence the word, only in dark the light, only in dying life: bright the hawk's flight on the empty sky.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea

“Kittering looked up from the display. ‘I am mistaken as a spokesman for an entire species. Very non-cosmopolitan.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, Eyes of the Void

“Also, she’d been taught to think that the Parthenon were the right and the good. And rather than that meaning they got to do what they liked, and their actions would be whitewashed as right and good because of who they were, it meant they had to actually do right and good things.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, Eyes of the Void