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|07 = '''The ink of the learned is equal in merit to the blood of the martyrs.'''<br /> | |07 = '''The ink of the learned is equal in merit to the blood of the martyrs.'''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— Louis de Bernières (b. 1954), ''Birds Without Wings''</cite> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— Louis de Bernières (b. 1954), ''Birds Without Wings''</cite> | ||
|08 = '''There is only one good, [[knowledge]], and one evil, | |08 = '''There is only one good, [[knowledge]], and one evil, ignorance.'''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Socrates]] (469 BC - 399 BC), ''Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers''</cite> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Socrates]] (469 BC - 399 BC), ''Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers''</cite> | ||
|09 = '''Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.'''<br /> | |09 = '''Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.'''<br /> | ||
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All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940), U.S. author. Letter (undated) to his daughter Frances Scott Fitzgerald. The Crack-Up, ed. Edmund Wilson (1945). Source.
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