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All that you can't leave behind

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14 November 10
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She was even better armed by the conviction of being in the right, but what is the use of being in the right if one is faced by the blank, unaltered stare of satisfied ignorance?
— Doris Lessing, Martha Quest, IV, 1.
23 September 10
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La colpa di Eva è stata quella di voler conoscere, sperimentare, indagare con le proprie forze le leggi che regolano l’universo, la Terra, il nostro corpo, di rifiutare l’insegnamento calato dall’alto; in una parola Eva rappresenta la la curiosità della scienza contro la passiva accettazione della fede.
— Margherita Hack, Le mie favole, p. 46.
23 March 10
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Reblogged: stepanini

3 March 10
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Mr. Braddock: Ben, what are you doing? Benjamin: Well, I would say that I’m just drifting. Here in the pool. Mr. Braddock: Why? Benjamin: Well, it’s very comfortable just to drift here. Mr. Braddock: Have you thought about graduate school? Benjamin: No. Mr. Braddock: Would you mind telling me then what those four years of college were for? What was the point of all that hard work? Benjamin: You got me. The Graduate, 1967

Mr. Braddock: Ben, what are you doing? 
Benjamin: Well, I would say that I’m just drifting. Here in the pool. 
Mr. Braddock: Why? 
Benjamin: Well, it’s very comfortable just to drift here. 
Mr. Braddock: Have you thought about graduate school? 
Benjamin: No. 
Mr. Braddock: Would you mind telling me then what those four years of college were for? What was the point of all that hard work? 
Benjamin: You got me.

The Graduate, 1967

28 February 10
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7 February 10
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Libraries raised me. I don’t believe in colleges and universities. I believe in libraries because most students don’t have any money. When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money. I couldn’t go to college, so I went to the library three days a week for 10 years.
— Ray Bradbury (via internetflaneur)

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19 January 10
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Sapere Aude!
— Immanuel Kant, Beantwortung der Frage: Was ist Aufklärung, 1784 - via Orazio
Tags: Knowledge Kant
Posted: 10:45 AM
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Considerate la vostra semenza
fatti non foste a viver come bruti
ma per seguir virtute e canoscenza.
— Dante Alighieri, Divina Commedia, Inferno XXVI vv. 118-120
5 January 10
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So wise so young, they say, do never live long.
— William Shakespeare, Richard III, III 1 v. 79.
18 November 09
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Perhaps it is better to wake up after all, even to suffer, rather than to remain a dupe to illusions all one’s life.
— Kate Chopin, The Awakening
Themed by Hunson. Originally by Josh AND NOW UPDATED BY PePperMINT! :)