Eyes and ears are poor witnesses to people if they have uncultured souls. - Heraclitus

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The way up and the way down are one and the same. - Heraclitus

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Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all things one and from one all things. - Heraclitus

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Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same. – Emily Brontë

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Much learning does not teach understanding. - Heraclitus

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Deliberate violence is more to be quenched than a fire. - Heraclitus

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I worked with several writers at the University of Michigan: Nicholas Delbanco, Peter Ho Davies, Eileen Pollack, Laura Kasischke, and Thomas Lynch, who told me the same thing over and over again: Persist. Read, write, and improve: tell your stories. - Jesmyn Ward

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My dad turned me onto Peter Sellers as a kid. I loved the fact that he was a unique combination of being extremely subtle and over-the-top all at the same time, and that's a hard thing to do. I admire that. - Will Ferrell

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Never again would birds’ song be the same ― Robert Frost

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We all live in the same house, we all must be part of the effort to hold down our little house. When you see something that is not right, not fair, not just... do something about it. Say something. Have the courage. Have the backbone. Get in the way. Walk with the wind. It's all going to work out. - John Lewis

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