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Outside books, we avoid colorful characters. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#books #characters #colorful #outside

What difference is there, do you think, between those in Plato's cave who can only marvel at the shadows and images of various objects, provided they are content and don't know what they miss, and the philosopher who has emerged from the cave and sees the real things? ↗

— Desiderius Erasmus

#cave #content #difference #emerged #images

America is not just a country, it's an idea, and real Americans are getting busy. ↗

— Bono

#busy #country #getting #idea #just

Don't give your advice before you are called upon. ↗

— Desiderius Erasmus

#before #called #give #upon #you

Everybody hates a prodigy, detests an old head on young shoulders. ↗

— Desiderius Erasmus

#everybody #hates #head #old #prodigy

Everyone knows that by far the happiest and universally enjoyable age of man is the first. What is there about babies which makes us hug and kiss and fondle them, so that even an enemy would give them help at that age? ↗

— Desiderius Erasmus

#age #babies #enemy #enjoyable #even

I used to love Kurt Cobain, when he was telling people we're a pop band. People would laugh, they thought of it as good old ironic Kurt. But he wasn't being ironic. ↗

— Bono

#being #cobain #good #i #ironic

My understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by the person of Christ. ↗

— Bono

#christ #made #person #scriptures #simple

The entire world is my temple, and a very fine one too, if I'm not mistaken, and I'll never lack priests to serve it as long as there are men. ↗

— Desiderius Erasmus

#entire world #fine #i #lack #long

Because you know when you first become famous, you start walking a little different because people are staring at you. ↗

— Bono

#become #different #famous #first #know