“You can only live in the world you ken. The rest is just wishful thinking or paranoia.”

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Scottish novelist 1958

Barry Long (1926–2003) Australian spiritual teacher and writer

Knowing Yourself: The True in the False (1996)

“Only fools think they’re wise; the rest of us just muddle through as we can.”

Charles de Lint (1951) author

“Where Desert Spirits Crowd the Night”, p. 264
The Ivory and the Horn (1996)

“You know, some people think Shadowhunters are just myths. Like mummies and genies." Kyle grinned at Jace. "Can you grant wishes?"

"That depends," he said. "Do you wish to be punched in the face?”

Cassandra Clare book City of Fallen Angels

Source: City of Fallen Angels

“You have no alternative, and if you wish to live in honor, then this can be accomplished only by returning to your religion to religion and to jihad against your enemies.”

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi (1971–2019) leader of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant

The Meir Amit Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center, 22 August 2018 (date of quote) <br class="br">2014, 2018, Statement released in Arabic, 22 August 2018 <br class="br">Source: In a public statement by ISIS leader Abu Bakr al Baghdadi, the first in a year, he calls on his supporters to carry out terrorist attacks worldwide, mainly in Western countries. He mentions shooting, stabbing and ramming attacks as well as detonation of IEDs. https://www.terrorism-info.org.il/en/microsoft-wordin-public-statement-isis-leader-abu-bakr-al-baghdadi-first-year-calls-supporters-carry-terrorist-attacks-worldwide-mainly-western-countries-ment/, The Meir Amit Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center, 27 August 2018

“Children, if you dare to think
Of the greatness, rareness, muchness,
Fewness of this precious only
Endless world in which you say
You live, you think of things like this”

Robert Graves (1895–1985) English poet and novelist

"Warning to Children," lines 1–11, from Poems 1929 (1929).
Poems
Context: Children, if you dare to think
Of the greatness, rareness, muchness,
Fewness of this precious only
Endless world in which you say
You live, you think of things like this:
Blocks of slate enclosing dappled
Red and green, enclosing tawny
Yellow nets, enclosing white
And black acres of dominoes,
Where a neat brown paper parcel
Tempts you to untie the string.