"The real history of consciousness starts with one's first lie."
-Joseph Brodsky
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"For a writer only one form of patriotism exists: his attitude toward language."
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"Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family."
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"It is well to read everything of something, and something of everything."
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"What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness."
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"Poetry is rather an approach to things, to life, than it is typographical production."
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"How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it."
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"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."
-Aristotle
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"The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change."
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"Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education they grow firm there, firm as weeds among stones."
-Charlotte Bronte
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"If you think education is expensive, try ignorance."
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