#si

Books are standing counselors and preachers, always at hand, and always disinterested; having this advantage over oral instructors, that they are ready to repeat their lesson as often as we please. ↗

— Louis Nizer

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I believe in Karma. If the good is sown, the good is collected. When positive things are made, that returns well. ↗

— Yannick Noah

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At one time, I was persuaded to want to make music, and people answered me that that was not possible. ↗

— Yannick Noah

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The positive testimony of history is that the State invariably had its origin in conquest and confiscation. No primitive State known to history originated in any other manner. ↗

— Albert J. Nock

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I felt the weight of the past at the beginning of my career of singer. ↗

— Yannick Noah

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When one sings, one does not speak about the problems of the every day. One speaks about the things which inspire us, which helped us. ↗

— Yannick Noah

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Considered now as a possession, one may define culture as the residuum of a large body of useless knowledge that has been well and truly forgotten. ↗

— Albert J. Nock

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I am said to be difficult of acquaintance, unwilling to meet any one half way, and showing a social manner which is easy, not diffident, but formal and unresponsive, tending constantly to hold people off. ↗

— Albert J. Nock

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The position of modern science, as far as an ignorant man of letters can understand it, seems not a step in advance of that held by Huxley and Romanes in the last century. ↗

— Albert J. Nock

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The university's business is the conservation of useless knowledge; and what the university itself apparently fails to see is that this enterprise is not only noble but indispensable as well, that society can not exist unless it goes on. ↗

— Albert J. Nock

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