...quality of life lies in knowledge, in culture. Values are what constitute true quality of life, the supreme quality of life, even above food, shelter and clothing.

Ignorance is the root of many ills. Knowledge must be the fundamental ally of nations that aspire, despite all their tragedies and problems, to become truly emancipated, to build a better world.

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Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.

To get profit without risk experience without danger and reward without work is as impossible as it is to live without being born.

Imagination in poetry, as distinguished from mere fancy is the transfiguring of the real or actual to the ideal.

A woman will always be dependent until she holds a purse of her own.

Without water, our planet would be one of the billions of lifeless rocks floating endlessly in the vastness of the inky-black void.

No society can thrive when half its people are left behind.

There is a time to dance to techno and a time not to.

It's a choice - there are two different sorts of photographer: those obsessed with the technicalities and those obsessed by the subject.

Trump wants a team of fighters. He wants a team of people that understand what they're up against and who's out to get them, to stop them, to destroy them, to impede them or what have you.