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A peoples literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of t

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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There are few efforts more conducive to humility than that of the translator trying to communicate an incommunicable beauty. Yet, unless we do try, something unique and never surpassed will cease to exist except in the libraries of a few inquisitive book lovers. – Edith Hamilton

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Translation
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Edith Hamilton
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None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry. – Edith Hamilton

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Poetry
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There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source. – Brigham Young

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They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but its not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance. – Terry Pratchett

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Like all science, psychology is knowledge and like science again, it is knowledge of a definite thing, the mind. – James M. Baldwin

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As far as knowledge goes Ive come a long way. – Jurgen Klinsmann

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The reason most people dont express their individuality and actually deny it, is not fear of what prime ministers think of us or the head of the federal reserve, Its what their families and their friends down at the bar are going to think of them. – David Icke

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