The human species thinks in metaphors and learns through stories. – Mary Catherine Bateson

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I want to find a way of speaking to fellow human beings that will be cool rather than heated, philosophical rather than polemical, that will bring enlightenment rather than seeking to divide us into the righteous and the sinners, the saved and the damned, the sheep and the goats.

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Because shoes got by devilish ways will burn your feet. ― Langston Hughes

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I was unhappy for a long time, and very lonesome, living with my grandmother. Then it was that books began to happen to me, and I began to believe in nothing but books and the wonderful world in books — where if people suffered, they suffered in beautiful language, not in monosyllables, as we did in Kansas. ― Langston Hughes

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I believe in only one thing, the power of human will. ― Joseph Stalin

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Well, son, I'll tell you: Life for me ain't been no crystal stair. ― Langston Hughes

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I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom. - Simone de Beauvoir

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God in his infinite wisdom Did not make me very wise- So when my actions are stupid They hardly take God by surprise. ― Langston Hughes

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The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents... some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new Dark Age.

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We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom. ― Leo Tolstoy

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