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The more I know, the more sure I am I know so little. The eternal paradox.

— James Clavell The Fly (1958)

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The search for the truth is the most important work in the whole world — and the most dangerous.

The Fly (1958)

What are clouds, but an excuse for the sky? What is life, but an escape from death?

Shōgun (1975)

I'm going to work hard not to have any wrong thoughts!

The Children's Story (1982)

Just a moment, children — what does "pledge" mean?

The Children's Story (1982)

There are no "mitigating circumstances" when it comes to rebellion against a sovereign lord.

Shōgun (1975)

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The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.

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It is not in the books of the Philosophers, but in the religious symbolism of the Ancients, that we must look for the footprints of Science, and re-discover the Mysteries of Knowledge.

Albert Pike Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871)

Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.

Bertrand Russell

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