Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful. —Samuel Johnson, 18th century British author and critic

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There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality. —Pablo Picasso, Spanish artist

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There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality. —Pablo Picasso, Spanish artist

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In the West, people don’t believe animals have souls, do they? That’s not true in Japan, though. I myself believe that dogs and cats have souls — but that has nothing to do with a specific religion. Children have similar feelings about dolls — if they love a doll enough, they feel that it’s alive. That feeling is universal. It’s not something they’re taught — they just feel it somehow. It’s not connected with any religious belief. —Mamoru Oshii, Japanese director

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When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace. —Jimi Hendrix, American musician

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Permanent good can never be the outcome of untruth and violence. —Mohandas K. Gandhi, Indian activist

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Look into any man’s heart you please, and you will always find, in every one, at least one black spot which he has to keep concealed. —Henrik Ibsen, Norwegian playwright

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As a result of the war, corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands, and the Republic is destroyed. I feel at this moment more anxiety for the safety of my country than ever before, even in the midst of the war. —Abraham Lincoln, U.S. president

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I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does. —Jorge Luis Borges, Argentine writer

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It is human nature to hate the man whom you have hurt. —Publius Cornelius Tacitus, Roman historian

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Even when pressed by the demands of inner truth, men do not easily assume the task of opposing their government’s policy, especially in time of war. Nor does the human spirit move without great difficulty against all the apathy of conformist thought within one’s own bosom and in the surrounding world. —Martin Luther King Jr., American minister and activist

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Social advance depends as much upon the process through which it is secured as upon the result itself. —Jane Addams

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