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As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#amount #biggest #disorder #far #far less

Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#capital #date #death #further #higher

The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#knowledge #learning #our #rests #upon

The cinema began with a passionate, physical relationship between celluloid and the artists and craftsmen and technicians who handled it, manipulated it, and came to know it the way a lover comes to know every inch of the body of the beloved. No matter where the cinema goes, we cannot afford to lose sight of its beginnings. ↗

— Martin Scorsese

#artists #began #beginnings #beloved #between

More people are troubled by what is plain in Scripture than by what is obscure. ↗

— Roy L. Smith

#more people #obscure #people #plain #scripture

Slavery, properly so called, is the establishment of a right which gives to one man such a power over another as renders him absolute master of his life and fortune. ↗

— Charles de Secondat

#another #called #establishment #fortune #gives

I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with; something or other becomes unsettled where I had achieved internal peace; some one or other of the things I had put to flight reappears on the scene. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#back #becomes #character #come #flight

Three years after starting, by physically doing everything from raising the finance to special effects, we'd finally cobbled together our low budget film. ↗

— Yahoo Serious

#budget #budget film #cobbled #doing #effects

I am in suspense as to the probable or improbability of being called into the Army, a station I would prefer to any other that of being in arms to defend an injured and grossly insulted country. ↗

— John Sevier

#any #arms #army #being #called

I went to the Westminster College for Men in Missouri, which is what it was called back then, and transferred to the University of Denver where I ultimately got my degree. ↗

— Ted Shackelford

#called #college #degree #denver #got