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We read deeply for varied reasons, most of them familiar: that we cannot know enough people profoundly enough; that we need to know ourselves better; that we require knowledge, not just of self and others, but of the way things are. ↗

— Harold Bloom

#cannot #deeply #enough #enough people #familiar

By going to the movies, and because of other things, too, going to college, making a wide variety of friends, moving around traveling, I became a lot more open-minded than the heritage I was born into might have suggested. ↗

— Roger Ebert

#became #because #born #college #friends

I just went to Harvard a little while, because I graduated from Armstrong High School in Washington and then I went up there but I didn't stay that long because I went into show business. ↗

— Billy Eckstine

#because #business #graduated #harvard #high

9/11, the wars and terrorism have affected all of us in different ways: people who lost family on 9/11, the people who lost family in the wars and people who lost family in various terrorist attacks that have occurred since. ↗

— Mark Boal

#attacks #different #different ways #family #lost

I am the epitome of a walking contradiction for various reasons, only one of which being that I feel my existence is of heaven and hell. ↗

— Kim Elizabeth

#being #contradiction #epitome #existence #feel

Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction because of the variety of factors in operation, not because of any lack of order in nature. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#because #beyond #domain #exact #factors

I won't say there aren't any Harvard graduates who have never asserted a superior attitude. But they have done so to our great embarrassment and in no way represent the Harvard I know. ↗

— Derek Bok

#asserted #attitude #done #embarrassment #graduates

I was blown away by the control and the range that I was hearing. I'm listening to Pavarotti and thinking, What the hell have I been doing with my voice all these years? ↗

— Michael Bolton

#been #blown #blown away #control #doing

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

Human affairs are so obscure and various that nothing can be clearly known. ↗

— Desiderius Erasmus

#clearly #human #human affairs #known #nothing