"When a man says he sees nothing in a book, he very often means that he does not see himself in it: which, if it is not a comedy or a satire, is likely enough."

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Augustus William Hare

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“The Ethiopians say that their gods are snub-nosed and black the Thracians that theirs have light blue eyes and red hair.”
“We're at war with Japan. We were attacked by Japan. Do you want to kill Japanese, or would you rather have Americans killed?”

Source : "The Making of the Atomic Bomb". Book by Richard Rhodes, p. 596, 1986.
“There are times when the ocean is not the ocean - not blue, not even water, but some violent explosion of energy and danger: fierceness on a scale only gods can summon.”
“It's a part of hip-hop, rave culture. But moving on from whistles, in the future we want to release Greco-Roman wine. Our friends are getting too old to go clubbing, but they will still have to buy our wine if we release it.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“I think that what we need is a balance between men and women. I don't believe in the value of the matriarchy as a model for human organizations any more than I believe in the value of patriarchy as a successful model. I think that what we need is a balance of male and female, the yin and the yang, the tantric union of god and goddess, enlightenment of the individual.”

Source : Source: www.lotusguide.com
“Inside every adult there's still a child that lingers.”
“Education in our times must try to find whatever there is in students that might yearn for completion, and to reconstruct the learning that would enable them autonomously to seek that completion.”
“We all know that a lie needs no other grounds, than the invention of the liar; and to take for granted as truth, all that is alleged against the fame of others, is a species of credulity, that men would blush at on any other subject.”

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