Quote by Arthur Machen
Every branch of human knowledge, if traced up to its source and fi

Every branch of human knowledge, if traced up to its source and final principles, vanishes into mystery. – Arthur Machen

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It is all nonsense, to be sure and so much the greater nonsense inasmuch as the true interpretation of many dreams – not by any means of all dreams – moves, it may be said, in the opposite direction to the method of psycho-analysis. – Arthur Machen

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If a man dreams that he has committed a sin before which the sun hid his face, it is often safe to conjecture that, in sheer forgetfulness, he wore a red tie, or brown boots with evening dress. – Arthur Machen

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Now, everybody, I suppose, is aware that in recent years the silly business of divination by dreams has ceased to be a joke and has become a very serious science. – Arthur Machen

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More students have a better knowledge of pop culture than of the Constitution. – Charles Bowen

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Knowledge is the consequence of time, and multitude of days are fittest to teach wisdom. – Jeremy Collier

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Human knowledge has been changing from the word go and people in certain respects behave more rationally than they did when they didnt have it. They spend less time doing rain dances and more time seeding clouds. – Herbert Simon

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A peoples literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show the quality of the people as no historical reconstruction can. – Edith Hamilton

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A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life. – Charles Darwin

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I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am. – Joseph Baretti, quoted by James Boswell, 1766 (commonly misattributed to Samuel

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You get elected, often, if youre a woman, on the strength of the womens vote then you get into office, and you have to adapt to an overwhelmingly male environment. – Eleanor Clift

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I have only been funny about seventy four per cent of the time. Yes I think that is right. Seventy-four per cent of the time. – Will Ferrell

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