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“When the records of our civilization are balanced, then—but perhaps not before—the real importance of dental science will be appreciated. Now it is merely valued at the moment of toothache.”

Avram Davidson (1923–1993) novelist

Help! I am Dr. Morris Goldpepper (p. 59)
Short fiction, Or All the Seas with Oysters (1962)

Science

“In general I find little girls enchanting. What a shame they grow up to be big girls and make our lives as miserable as we allow them, and oft-times more.”

Avram Davidson (1923–1993) novelist

My Boy Friend’s Name is Jello (p. 95)
Short fiction, Or All the Seas with Oysters (1962)

Time , Girl
Dmitry Peskov photo

“We will never trust the West again.”

Dmitry Peskov (1967) Russian politician

"Russia Says It Will 'never Trust West Again', Fallout Over Ukraine War To Be 'long Crisis'" https://www.republicworld.com/world-news/russia-ukraine-crisis/russia-says-it-will-never-trust-west-again-fallout-over-ukraine-war-to-be-long-crisis-articleshow.html, Republic World, 22 June 2022
CNN Interview (March 2022)

Noam Chomsky photo

“The pathology of Islamophobia is growing throughout the West — it is taking its most lethal form in India.”

Noam Chomsky (1928) american linguist, philosopher and activist

Quoted in "India has turned Muslims into a 'persecuted minority': Noam Chomsky" https://www.dawn.com/news/1674696, Dawn, February 12, 2022
Quotes 2020s, 2022

Stephen Antony Pillai photo

“If God so wills, I will bear fruit. I am a grown up plant of forty years in priesthood service. This is God's plan and His will. I never thought that, at the age of sixty-six, I would be made a bishop. God has fulfilled His own dream in this way. That's how I take it.”

Stephen Antony Pillai (1952) Roman Catholic bishop

My Priority Is Spiritual Awakening (28 February 2019) Light of truth http://lightoftruth.in/coverstory/priority-spiritual-awakening/

God , Dreams , Age , Way
Angela Davis photo

“Because we are so accustomed to talking about race in terms of black and white, we often fail to recognize and contest expressions of racism that target people of color who are not black.”

Angela Davis Are Prisons Obsolete?

Source: Are Prisons Obsolete? (2003), Chapter Two

People , Color
Bounnhang Vorachit photo

“Cooperation for development has now become the major trend of our contemporary world. We have clearly witnessed that diverse forms and scope of cooperation have taken place within and among the regions thus providing a strong boost to the world economic growth.”

Bounnhang Vorachit (1937) former General Secretary of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party (2016-2021)

"Keynote Address by H.E. Mr. Bounnhang Vorachith Prime Minister of the Lao People’s Democratic Republic" https://asean.org/keynote-address-by-h-e-mr-bounnhang-vorachith-prime-minister-of-the-lao-peoples-democratic-republic-2/ (26 July 2005)

Strong , World
T.S. Eliot photo

“Where is the Life we have lost in living?
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
The cycles of Heaven in twenty centuries
Bring us farther from God and nearer to the Dust.”

T.S. Eliot book The Rock

The Rock, Part I (1934)

Life , God , Knowledge , Wisdom

“Age-related sensory changes can be traced to degeneration in some of the cells and cell products that compose the sense organ itself.”

Leonard Hayflick (1928) American anatomist

[How and why we age, 1994, Ballantine Books, 177, https://books.google.com/books?id=E2pHAAAAMAAJ&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=loss]

Age , Sense , Change

“Too many so-called historians are really 'hysterians'; their thinking is more visceral than cerebral. When their duties as citizens clash with their responsibilities as scholars, Clio frequently takes a back seat.”

Thomas A. Bailey (1902–1983) American historian

Essays Diplomatic and Undiplomatic of Thomas A. Bailey (1969), p. 10

Thinking

“Too many historical writers are the votaries of cults, which, by definition are dedicated to whitewashing warts and hanging halos.”

Thomas A. Bailey (1902–1983) American historian

Essays Diplomatic and Undiplomatic of Thomas A. Bailey (1969), p. 15

NoViolet Bulawayo photo

“I am starting to talk fast now, and I have to remember to slow down because when I get excited, I start to sound like myself and my American accent goes away.”

NoViolet Bulawayo book We Need New Names

We Need New Names (2013)

NoViolet Bulawayo photo

“As for the coldness, I have never seen it like this. I mean, coldness that makes like it wants to kill you, like it's telling you, with its snow, that you should go back to where you came from.”

NoViolet Bulawayo book We Need New Names

We Need New Names (2013)

“Mere abstention from a life of evil does not constitute a life devoted to good works.”

Lin Carter book Kesrick

Source: Kesrick (1982), Chapter 3, “The Monster-Guarded Gate” (p. 25)

Life , Evil

“However, as one or another of the philosophers has probably noted ere now, the morning was not quite over yet.”

Lin Carter book Kesrick

Source: Kesrick (1982), Chapter 13, “Wed and Widowed” (p. 86)

“You will find, dear boy, on these chivalric adventures of yours, that manly courage and fortitude, even when bolstered by the fortunate possession of an enchanted sword such as Dastagerd, are not quite enough: one requires, as well, the use of logic, reason, deduction, and, in a word—intelligence!”

Lin Carter book Kesrick

Source: Kesrick (1982), Chapter 16, “The Fairy of the Fountain” (p. 105)

Intelligence , Boy , Courage

“You will observe, I think, that repentance is seldom whole-hearted, and generally arises from such base and ignoble motives as feeling sorry for yourself in dire circumstances.”

Lin Carter book Kesrick

Source: Kesrick (1982), Chapter 23, “Gaglioffo Repents” (p. 147)

Heart , Motivation , Thinking , Feeling
Syed Ahmed Khan photo

“India is like a bride which has got two beautiful and lustrous eyes—Hindus and Mussulmans. If they quarrel against each other that beautiful bride will become ugly and if one destroys the other, she will lose one eye.”

Syed Ahmed Khan (1820–1898) Indian educator and politician

Writings and Speeches of Sir Syed Ahmad Khan https://www.google.com/books/edition/Writings_and_Speeches/ausHAAAAMAAJ?hl=en, Nachiketa Publications (1972), p. 160.
Variant: "India is a beautiful bride and Hindus and Muslims are her two eyes. If one of them is lost, this beautiful bride will become ugly." Quoted in Shirali, Aresh (10 August 2017). "The Enigma of Aligarh" https://openthemagazine.com/freedom-issue-2017/freedom-issue-2017-dispatches-from-history/the-enigma-of-aligarh/. Open Magazine.

Beauty
Abu Hamid al-Ghazali photo

“[K]nowledge that is not Infallible is not certain knowledge.”

Abu Hamid al-Ghazali (1058–1111) Persian Muslim theologian, jurist, philosopher, and mystic

I. Introduction, p. 7.
Deliverance from Error

Knowledge
Hannah More photo

“A crown! what is it?
It is to bear the miseries of a people!
To hear their murmurs, feel their discontents,
And sink beneath a load of splendid care!”

Hannah More (1745–1833) English religious writer and philanthropist

Daniel, Pt. VI

Feeling , People