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WRITING - READING: Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information? (Unknown Source)

WRITING - READING: All religions united with government are more or less inimical to liberty. All, separated from government, are compatible with liberty. (Henry Clay, U.S. statesman and orator, 1777-1852)

WRITING - READING: What soap is for the body, tears are for the soul. (Jewish proverb)

WRITING - READING: A cult is a religion with no political power. (Tom Wolfe, Jr., U.S. author and journalist, Born 1931)

WRITING - READING: Religious canons all too often lead to cannons! (Unknown source)

WRITING - READING: The tax which will be paid for the purpose of education is not more than the thousandth part of what will be paid to kings, priests, and nobles who will rise up among us if we leave the people in ignorance. (Thomas Jefferson, one of the U.S. Founders who was the principal author of the Declaration of Independence and later served as the third President of the United States, 1743-1826)

WRITING - READING: America - the nation of the bullet as well as the ballot, and unlikely to change. (Richard Rayner, British author and editor, Born 1955)

WRITING - READING: A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social upliftis is approaching spiritual doom. (Martin Luther King Jr., Baptist minister and activist who became the most visible spokesperson and leader in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement. 1929-1968)

WRITING - READING: There is nothing...to prevent us from reordering our priorities, so that the pursuit of peace will take precedence over the pursuit of war. (Martin Luther King Jr., Baptist minister and activist who became the most visible spokesperson and leader in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement. 1929-1968)

WRITING - READING: Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information? (T.S. Eliot, U.S.-born British subject , an essayist, publisher, playwright, and literary and social critic. Who won the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1888-1965)

WRITING - READING: Every saint has a past and every sinner a future. (Oscar Wilde, Irish poet and playwright, 1854-1900)

WRITING - READING: You never want to try to strengthen a weakness if it weakens your strength. (Bob Torrance, Scottish soccer player, 1888-1917)

WRITING - READING: If people are generous, empathic, and charitable, does it matter whether theybelieve in a messiah or a prophet? (Anna Quindlen, U.S. author, journalist, and Pulitzer Prize winning opinion columnist, Born 1952)

WRITING - READING: When the string of the violin was being tuned it felt the pain of being stretched, but once it was tuned, then it knew why it was stretched. (Hazrat Inayat Khan, Indian founder of The Sufi Order in the West and teacher of Universal Sufism, 1882-1927)

WRITING - READING: the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. (Niels Bohr, Danish physicist, promoter of scientific research, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics, 1885-1962)

WRITING - READING: The future is uncertain. But such uncertainty lies at the very heart of human creativity. (Ilya Prigogine, Belgian physical chemist and Nobel Laureate, 1917-2003)

WRITING - READING: There's really no such thing as the 'voiceless'. There are only the deliberately silenced or the preferably unheard. (Arundhati Roy, Indian author and political activist in human rights and environmental causes, Born 1961)

WRITING - READING: Do we need weapons to fight wars? Or do we need wars to create markets for weapons? (Arundhati Roy, Indian author and political activist in human rights and environmental causes, Born 1961)

WRITING - READING: Wisdom is a love affair with questions. Knowledge is a love affair with answers. (Julio Olalla, Chilean consultant and former government attorney, Born 1945)

WRITING - READING: Use the talents you possess, for the woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except the best. (Unknown Source)

WRITING - READING: The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone. (Harriet Beecher Stowe, U.S. abolitionist and author, 1811-1896)

WRITING - READING: Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best. (Henry Van Dyke, U.S. poet, 1852-1933)

WRITING - READING: Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence. (Henri Frederic Amiel, Swiss moral philosopher, poet, and critic, 1821-1881)

WRITING - READING: Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods. (Albert Einstein, German-born theoretical physicist and Nobel Laureate who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics, 1879-1955)