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“Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.”
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“we make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers”
― Cosmos
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“There are, it seems, two muses: the Muse of Inspiration, who gives us inarticulate visions and desires, and the Muse of Realization, who returns again and again to say "It is yet more difficult than you thought." This is the muse of form. It may be then that form serves us best when it works as an obstruction, to baffle us and deflect our intended course. It may be that when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work and when we no longer know which way to go, we have begun our real journey. The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the one that sings.”
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The Big Read
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In 2003, the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC for all of you uncouth Yanks, of whom I am one) conducted a massive survey asking one question: Wha ...more
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