[There] is no class so dangerous as the idle educated. - Anthony Daniels

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Imagination is usually regarded as a synonym for the unreal. Yet is true imagination healthful and real, no more likely to mislead than the coarse senses. Indeed, the power of imagination makes us infinite.

Anthony Daniels

[There] is no class so dangerous as the idle educated.

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I have a greater appreciation for kitchen appliances, having played one.

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Equality is the measure of all things, and bad behavior is less bad if everyone indulges in it.

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Unilateral tolerance in a world of intolerance is like unilateral disarmament in a world of armed camps: it regards hope as a better basis for policy than reality.

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I have never understood the liberal assumption that if there were justice in the world, there would be fewer rather than more prisoners.

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It is in this matter that I fall foul of so many American writers on writing; they seem to think that writing is a confidence game by means of which the author cajoles a restless, dull-witted, shallow audience into hearing his point of view. Such an attitude is base, and can only beget base prose.

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John Muir

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T. S. Eliot

I confess. . . that I am not myself very much concerned with the question of influence, or with those publicists who have impressed their names upon the public by catching the morning tide and rowing very vast in the direction in which the current was flowing; but rather that there should always be a few writers preoccupied in penetrating to the core of the matter, in trying to arrive at the truth and to set it forth, without too much hope, without ambition to alter the immediate course of affairs, and without being downcast or defeated when nothing appears to ensue.

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Death brings release & removal from all evil, every tragedy & all difficulty. Death is not an enemy.

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