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It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.
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Albert Camus |
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"Who are you?" the woman said at last. "Lyra Silver--" "No, where d'you come from? What are you? How do you know things like this?" Wearily Lyra sighed; she had forgotten how roundabout Scholars could be. It was difficult to tell them the truth when a lie would have been so much easier for them to understand."
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Philip Pullman |
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"Scholars don't have blood flowing in their veins," said Hamlet. "When they're wounded, they bleed logic, and when all of it is gone, their brains die, and they become ... soldiers."
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scholars
soldiers
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Orson Scott Card |
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You do not know the madness of scholarly curiosity, Mr Webster. To be interested, and at the same time disinterested...
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humorous
humour
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Muriel Spark |
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Grown children (an oxymoron, I realize) veer instinctively to extremes: the young scholar is much more a pedant than his older counterpart. And I, being young myself, took these pronouncements of Henry's very seriously. I doubt if Milton himself could have impressed me more.
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Donna Tartt |