“In the beginning was the Word. Then came the fucking word processor. Then came the thought processor. Then came the death of literature. And so it goes.”

― Dan Simmons, Hyperion

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“The peace-loving nations must make a concerted effort in opposition to those violations of treaties and those ignorings of human instincts which today are creating a state of international anarchy and instability from which there is no escape...”

― Franklin D. Roosevelt, Quarantine Speech

“This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit...”

― Martin Luther King, Jr.

“To major things the surest road is on the minor pains bestowed, if you don't happen to be in a hurry.”

― Samuel Beckett, Molloy

“Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.”

― Francis Bacon, The Essays of Francis Bacon

“The world has been going on. The world has a habit of going on. The world has a habit of leaving those behind who won't go with it.”

― Woodrow Wilson, The New Freedom

“Modern education includes morality; therefore the modern child seeks only entertainment in its wonder tales and gladly dispenses with all disagreeable incident.”

― L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

“Certainly, in taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior; for it is a prince's part to pardon.”

― Francis Bacon, The Essays of Francis Bacon

“But Nature, it seems, was at the bottom of the affair, and she gains her ends with dogs as well as with men, making us do as she likes, shoving and pulling us along her ways, however rough, all but killing us at times in getting her lessons...”

― John Muir, Stickeen

“If you're trying to improve your mind, stop it! There's no improving the mind. Look at your heart and gizzard — the brain is in the heart.”

― Henry Miller, Tropic of Capricorn

“From now on the enemy is more clever than you. From now on the enemy is stronger than you. From now on you are always about to lose.”

― Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game

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