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<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Mahatma Gandhi]]</cite> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Mahatma Gandhi]]</cite> | ||
|24 = '''Good [[prose]] is like a [[windowpane]].'''<br /> | |24 = '''Good [[prose]] is like a [[windowpane]].'''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[George Orwell]] (1903-1950) [http://www.netcharles.com/orwell/essays/whyiwrite.htm | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[George Orwell]] (1903-1950) [http://www.netcharles.com/orwell/essays/whyiwrite.htm ''Why I Write]</cite> | ||
|25 = '''That which we [[knowledge|know]] is a little thing; that which we do not know is immense. '''<br /> | |25 = '''That which we [[knowledge|know]] is a little thing; that which we do not know is immense. '''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Pierre-Simon de Laplace]] (1749-1827), French [[physicist]] and [[mathematician]], systematizer and elaborator of [[probability theory]]</cite> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Pierre-Simon de Laplace]] (1749-1827), French [[physicist]] and [[mathematician]], systematizer and elaborator of [[probability theory]]</cite> | ||
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Words constitute the ultimate texture and stuff of our moral being, since they are the most refined and delicate and detailed, as well as the most universally used and understood, of the symbolisms whereby we express ourselves into existence.
— Iris Murdoch
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