Sunday, 12 July
Two thoughts from Rabindranath Tagore
“You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.”
“We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us.”
Monday, 13 July
Two thoughts from Doris Lessing
“People who love literature have at least part of their minds immune from indoctrination. If you read, you can learn to think for yourself.”
“Parents should leave books lying around marked “forbidden” if they want their children to read.”
Tuesday, 14 July
Two thoughts from Orhan Pamuk
“The past is always an invented land.”
“Censorship should never be allowed. One should be able to say anything. But I refuse to let politics be foisted on me.”
Wednesday, 15 July
Two thoughts from Edmund Burke
“If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free. If our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.”
“Rage and frenzy will pull down more in half an hour than prudence, deliberation, and foresight can build up in a hundred years.”
Thursday, 16 July
Two thoughts from W.B. Yeats
“The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.”
“All empty souls tend to extreme opinion.”
Friday, 17 July
Two thoughts from John Keats
“Beauty is truth, truth beauty,”—that is all Ye know on Earth, and all ye need to know.”
“I feel more and more every day, as my imagination strengthens, that I do not live in this world alone but in a thousand worlds.”
Saturday, 18 July
Two thoughts from Hunter S. Thompson
“A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance.”
“Freedom is something that dies unless it’s used.”
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