“Busy, busy, busy, is what we Bokononists whisper whenever we think of how complicated and unpredictable the machinery of life really is.”

― Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle

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“One of the symptoms of approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important, and that to take a holiday would bring all kinds of disaster.”

― Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

“They’re a dark people with a gift for suffering way past their deserving. It’s said that without whisky to soak and soften the world, they’d kill themselves.”

― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.”

― George Eliot, Middlemarch

“From all that I can collect by your manner of talking, you must be two of the silliest girls in the country.”

― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“Doomed to procreation and secondary tasks, stripped of her practical importance and her mystical prestige, woman becomes no more than a servant.”

― Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex

“He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often returned with two.”

― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.”

― William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience

“Thus all of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.”

― Carl Sagan, Cosmos

“Never trust any ruler who puts his faith in tunnels and bunkers and escape routes. The chances are that his heart isn’t in the job.”

― Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!

“If nuclear power makes them dangerous, a sincere friendship through trade will be many times better than an insecure overlordship, based on the hated supremacy of a foreign spiritual power, which, once it weakens ever so slightly, can only fall...”

― Isaac Asimov, Foundation

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