Many people have played themselves to death. Many people have eaten and drunk themselves to death. Nobody ever thought himself to death.
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The aim of those who try to control thought is always the same. They find one single explanation of the world, one system of thought and action that will (they believe) cover everything and then they try to impose that on all thinking people.Gilbert Highet
What is politics but persuading the public to vote for this and support that and endure these for the promise of those?
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A teacher must believe in the value and interest of his subject as a doctor believes in health.
Gilbert Highet
Language is a living thing. We can feel it changing. Parts of it become old: they drop off and are forgotten. New pieces bud out, spread into leaves, and become big branches, proliferating.
Gilbert Highet
These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.
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