In brief, the function of knowledge is to make one experience freely available in other experiences.
-John Dewey
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I always feel that I have two duties to perform with a parting guest: one, to see that he doesn't forget anything that is his; the other, to see that he doesn't take anything that is mine.
-Alfred North Whitehead
It's easy to play any musical instrument: all you have to do is touch the right key at the right time and the instrument will play itself.
-Johann Sebastian Bach
One of the truly bad effects of religion is that it teaches us that it is a virtue to be satisfied with not understanding.
-Richard Dawkins
From craving is born grief, from craving is born fear. For one freed from craving there’s no grief – so how fear?
-Gautama Buddha
Never forget that you are one of a kind. Never forget that if there weren’t any need for you in all your uniqueness to be on this earth, you wouldn’t be here in the first place.
-R. Buckminster Fuller
I think I’m an actor because I have very strong imagination and empathy; those two qualities are exactly the qualities that make for an activist.
-Susan Sarandon
Anyone who believes that a second is faster than a decade did not live life.
-Jonathan Safran Foer
God never wrought miracle to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince it.
-Francis Bacon
