"The entire world is worthless excepting five things: to eat for survival, to take water in order to slake thirst, clothes to cover body, house to dwell in, knowledge just to act upon."

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“Gnostic gets peace after annihilation in Him.”

“He who meditates into the mysteries of the Holy Quran is sagacious in true sense.”

“In his youth he would say: "One should worship Him in his youth.”

“O God! Whatever punishment you inflict upon me, do not punish me with the humiliation of being veiled from Thee.”

“To meet people with hypocrisy separates one from God.”

“He who cannot bridle his own lower soul, how can he purify the same of others.”

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"There was constant talk about hewing things and ravaging things and splitting things asunder. Lots of big talk of things being mighty, and of things being riven, and of things being in thrall to other…"

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— Randall Jarrell

Literature1914–1965

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"Learning proceeds until death and only then does it stop. ... Its purpose cannot be given up for even a moment. To pursue it is to be human, to give it up to be a beast."

— Xun Zi

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"Because of the information discussed on page nine, experts now suspect that there may in fact be one survivor of the fire, but the survivor's whereabouts are unknown."

— Daniel Handler

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#knowledge