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Considering he was neither priest nor scholar, the young man gave sensible, thoughtful replies -- the more so, perhaps, for being untrained, for he had not learned what he should believe or should not believe. Present a statement to him in flagrant contradiction to all Christian doctrine and he could be persuaded to agree on its good sense, unless he remembered it was the sort of thing of which pyres are made for the incautious. ↗

— Iain Pears

#doctrine #education #freedom #freedom-of-religion #freedom-of-thought

Niemand hat das Recht zu gehorchen. ↗

— Hannah Arendt

#independence #freedom

Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is a live and not after he is dead. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#the-great-gasby #friendship

It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer. ↗

— E. B. White

#comes #friend #good #good writer #often

Once she was gone, I knelt next to Annabeth and felt her forehead. She was still burning up. "You're cute when you're worried," she muttered. "Your eyebrows get all scrunched together." "You are not going to die while I owe you a favor," I said. "Why did you take that knife?" "You would've done the same for me." It was true. I guess we both knew it. Still, I felt like somebody was poking my heart with a cold metal rod. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#debt #favor #friendship #knife #percy-jackson

People have forgotten this truth," the fox said. "But you mustn’t forget it. You become responsible forever for what you’ve tamed. You’re responsible for your rose. ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

#love #responsibility #friendship

It's hard to tell who has your back, from who has it long enough just to stab you in it.... ↗

— Nicole Richie

#friendship #friendship

When they finished laughing they were on their way to being not just friends, but the dearest of friends, the sort of friends whose lives are shaped by the friendship. ↗

— Robin McKinley

#friendship

The wounds that never heal can only be mourned alone. ↗

— James Frey

#friendship #healing #friendship

I knew they would kill me when they found out, but…” He struggled for words, releasing a sharp breath. “I think I realized that I would rather die because I betrayed them, than live because I betrayed you. ↗

— Marissa Meyer

#choice #emotions #friendship #love #scarlet