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Knowledge forbidden? Suspicious, reasonless. Why should their Lord Envy them that? Can it be a sin to know? Can it be death?

John Milton

Envy, Sin, Lord

John Milton, Alastair Fowler (2007). “Paradise Lost”, p.251, Pearson Education

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how can one respect, let alone adopt, the values of a people who do not, on any level whatever, live the way they say they do, or the way they say they should?

James A. Baldwin

People, Levels, Way

"Letter from a Region in My Mind" by James Baldwin, www.newyorker.com. November 17, 1962.

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Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.

Immanuel Kant

Time, Law, Categorical Imperative

Immanuel Kant, James Wesley Ellington (1994). “Ethical Philosophy: The Complete Texts of Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals, and Metaphysical Principles of Virtue, Part II of The Metaphysics of Morals, with On a Supposed Right to Lie Because of Philanthropic Concerns”, p.30, Hackett Publishing

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One half of her should not be always so much wiser than the other half.

Jane Austen

Other Half, Wiser, One Half

Jane Austen (2013). “Persuasion In Modern English”, p.325, BookCaps Study Guides

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Some people should never meet.

Tana French

People

Tana French (2010). “Faithful Place: Dublin Murder Squad: 3”, p.383, Hachette UK

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Women and music should not be dated.

Chinua Achebe

Chinua Achebe (2011). “No Longer at Ease”, p.32, Anchor

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That lovely voice; how I should weep for joy if I could hear it now!

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Lovely Voice, Joy, If I Could

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We are so full of apprehensions, fears, that we don't know exactly to what it points... a great change of our psychoglocal attitude is imminent, that is certain...because we need more understanding of human nature because ...the only real danger that exists is man himself... and we know nothing of man - his psyche should be studied because we are the origin of all coming evil.

Carl Jung

Attitude, Real, Men

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I should’ve been very cross with Anubis. Kissing me without permission—the nerve!

Rick Riordan

Kissing, Anubis, Nerves

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That chain of relationships made me think of how connections are made--you read a book, you meet a person, you have a single experience, and your life is changed in some way. No act, therefore, however small, should be dismissed or ignored.

Howard Zinn

Book, Thinking, Connections

Howard Zinn (2010). “You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times”, p.124, Beacon Press

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he was for long my only audience... Only from him did I ever get the idea that my ‘stuff’ could be more than a private hobby. But for his interest and unceasing eagerness for more I should never have brought The L. of the R. to a conclusion.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Ideas, Long, Hobbies

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Should it concern us that the bible never calls us to ask Jesus into our hearts. Should it concern us that the bible never mentions such a superstitious sinners prayer and yet that is exactly what we have sold to so many as salvation.

David Platt

Jesus, Prayer, Heart

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O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains!" - Cassio (Act II, Scene iii)

William Shakespeare

Men, Alcohol, Brain

1603-4 Cassio, of wine. Othello, act 2, sc.3, l.283-5.

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I have so often been asked the question: "But how did you come to think of The Scarlet Pimpernel?" And my answer has always been: "It was God's will that I should." And to you moderns, who perhaps do not believe as I do, I will say, "In the chain of my life, there were so many links, all of which tended towards bringing me to the fulfillment of my destiny."

Baroness Orczy

Believe, Destiny, Thinking

"Links in the Chain of Life" by Emma Orczy, (Ch. 8), 1947.

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But give up my business? The same business I'd built from the ground up with my own two hands and designer Louis Vuittons? The same business for which I'd sacrificed blood, sweat, and tears? Well, maybe not sweat and tears, but there was blood. Lots of blood. Give it up? Not likely. Besides, what else would I do? I totally should've gone to Hogwarts when I had the chance.

Darynda Jones

Giving Up, Sweat, Two

Darynda Jones (2012). “Third Grave Dead Ahead”, p.36, Macmillan

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...To be honest, I'd be the last person who should be doling out gardeinng advice. I don't have the patience for growing things. Yes, I realize there's nothing quite as satisfying as eating food that you've pulled up from the ground and that's why, at the height of the planting season, I bury cans of tomato soup in my backyard and dig them up in late spring.

Ellen DeGeneres

Spring, Advice, Backyards

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You are vain and wicked- as a genius should be.

Gunter Grass

Wicked, Genius, Vain

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The bluejacket girlie rode like a clan warrior, but there was no way she'd escape. It was a private life-and-death contest that had nothing to do with him. He told himself he should ride on, grateful that the chase would keep them occupied while he took a different path. But what had he told Rebecca when she'd asked what he meant to do when he returned to the Fells? 'I'm tired of people in power picking on the weak. I'm going to help them.

Cinda Williams Chima

Grateful, Tired, Warrior

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I got to thinking—when it was too late—you have to reach out to people. To your family, too. You can't just let them sit there, you should put your hand out. If they slap it back, well you reach out again if you care enough. If you don't care enough, you forget about them, if you can.

Cynthia Voigt

Thinking, Hands, People

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With Cats, some say, one rule is true: Don’t speak till you are spoken to. Myself, I do not hold with that — I say, you should ad-dress a Cat. But always keep in mind that he Resents familiarity. I bow, and taking off my hat, Ad-dress him in this form: O Cat! But if he is the Cat next door, Whom I have often met before (He comes to see me in my flat) I greet him with an oopsa Cat! I think I've heard them call him James — But we've not got so far as names.

T. S. Eliot

Cat, Thinking, Doors

T.S. Eliot (2015). “The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume II: Practical Cats and Further Verses”, p.33, Faber & Faber

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Without Art, we should have no notion of the sacred; without Science, we should always worship false gods.

W. H. Auden

Art, Science, Technology

"The Dyer's Hand, and Other Essays" by W. H. Auden, ("The Virgin & The Dynamo"), (p. 62), 1962.

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...the more risks you allow children to take, the better they learn to take care of themselves. If you never let them take any risks, then I believe they become very prone to injury. Boys should be allowed to climb tall trees and walk along the tops of high walls and dive into the sea from high rocks... The same with girls. I like the type of child who takes risks. Better by far than the one who never does so.

Roald Dahl

Girl, Children, Wall

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There doesn't seem like there should be an artful way to butcher a cow, but there is, and this is not it.

Maggie Stiefvater

Cows, Way, Butchers

Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “The Scorpio Races”, p.21, Scholastic UK

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To all the boys who inspired this album: You should've known. ;)

Taylor Swift

Boys, Albums, Inspired

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I imagine John Watson thinks love’s a mystery to me, but the chemistry is incredibly simple and very destructive. When we first met, you told me that a disguise is always a self portrait, how true of you, the combination to your safe – your measurements. But this is far more intimate. This is your heart, and you should never let it rule your head. You could have chosen any random number and walked out of here today with everything you worked for. But you just couldn’t resist it, could you? I’ve always assumed that love is a dangerous disadvantage. Thank you for the final proof.

Mark Gatiss

Heart, Thinking, Simple

"Sherlock (TV Series) - A Scandal in Belgravia". www.imdb.com. 2012.

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