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Farenheit 451
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Edward Albee
“People can't have everything they want. You should know that; it's a rule; people can have some of the things they want, but they can't have everything.”
Edward Albee, The American Dream & The Zoo Story

Nanette L. Avery
“If you like to hear yourself talk, read to a child...”
Nanette L. Avery

Isaiah Berlin
“The central values by which most men have lived, in a great many lands at a great many times—these values, almost if not entirely universal, are not always harmonious with each other. Some are, some are not. Men have always craved for liberty, security, equality, happiness, justice, knowledge, and so on. But complete liberty is not compatible with complete equality—if men were wholly free, the wolves would be free to eat the sheep. Perfect equality means that human liberties must be restrained so that the ablest and the most gifted are not permitted to advance beyond those who would inevitably lose if there were competition. Security, and indeed freedoms, cannot be preserved if freedom to subvert them is permitted. Indeed, not everyone seeks security or peace, otherwise some would not have sought glory in battle or in dangerous sports.
Justice has always been a human ideal, but it is not fully compatible with mercy. Creative imagination and spontaneity, splendid in themselves, cannot be fully reconciled with the need for planning, organization, careful and responsible calculation. Knowledge, the pursuit of truth—the noblest of aims—cannot be fully reconciled with the happiness or the freedom that men desire, for even if I know that I have some incurable disease this will not make me happier or freer. I must always choose: between peace and excitement, or knowledge and blissful ignorance. And so on...
If these ultimate human values by which we live are to be pursued, then compromises, trade-offs, arrangements have to be made if the worst is not to happen. So much liberty for so much equality, so much individual self-expression for so much security, so much justice for so much compassion.”
Isaiah Berlin

Edna Ferber
“About mistakes it's funny. You've got to make your own; and not only that, if you try to keep people from making theirs, they get mad.”
Edna Ferber, So Big

William Cullen Bryant
“Go forth under the open sky, and list
to Nature's teachings.”
William Cullen Bryant
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