“The relevant equation is: Knowledge = power = energy = matter = mass; a good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read.”

― Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!

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“The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.”

― Leonardo da Vinci, The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci

“You are the true master of death, because the true master does not seek to run away from Death. He accepts that he must die, and understands that there are far, far worse things in the living world than dying.”

― J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

“Immanuel Kant argued that perpetual peace would eventually come to the world in one of two ways: by human insight or by conflicts and catastrophes of a magnitude that left humanity no other choice.”

― Henry Kissinger, On China

“the time has arrived when patience becomes a crime and mayhem appears garbed in the mantle of virtue.”

― Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes

“don’t get afraid, get angry”

― Terry Pratchett, Hogfather

“We must make haste then, not only because we are daily nearer to death, but also because the conception of things and the understanding of them cease first.”

― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“The Wild Wood is pretty well populated by now; with all the usual lot, good, bad, and indifferent—I name no names.”

― Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

“But come; loss now will be gain then! To wait is harder than to run, and its meed is the fuller.”

― George MacDonald, Lilith

“You see, gentlemen, reason is an excellent thing, there's no disputing that, but reason is nothing but reason and satisfies only the rational side of man's nature, while will is a manifestation of the whole life, that is, of the whole human life...”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground

“Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before . . . He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.”

― Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle

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