"It is a mistake for anyone to think he has lived too long in his old, unsatisfactory ways to make the great change. If you switch on the light in a dark room, it makes no difference how long it was dark because the light will still shine. Be teachable. That is the whole secret."

-- Vernon Howard

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“Why not pick up the new full-length motion picture at the corner drugstore and then run it through one's home TV receiver?”
“Science never gives up searching for truth, since it never claims to have achieved it.”
“Savage peoples are ruled by passion, civilized peoples by the mind. The difference lies not in the respective natures of savagery and civilization, but in their attendant circumstances, institutions, and so forth. The difference, therefore, does not operate in every sense, but it does in most of them. Even the most civilized peoples, in short, can be fired with passionate hatred for each other.”
“A river of words flowed between us.”
“There is no limit to stupidity. - Space itself is said to be bounded by its own curvature, but stupidity continues beyond infinity.”

Source : Gene Wolfe (1994). “Sword & Citadel: The Second Half of 'The Book of the New Sun'”, p.327, Macmillan
“People rely on Wikipedia, and a lot of it is wrong. But because there it is on the Internet, they assume it's right. Rumor gets printed as fact. We may have lost our critical facility as a nation.”
“There is indeed a heaven on this earth, a heaven which we inhabit when we read a good book.”
“Anything worth having is hard to keep, I love you like my coffee, so hot and so sweet. So, let's stick it out so we never regret it, I could forgive the past-but I never forget it.”

Source : Song: You Know I'm No Good, Album: More Fish, 2006

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