"Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill."

-- Barbara Tuchman

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“Any smoothly functioning technology will have the appearance of magic.”
“Deep down within the heart there is a stillness which is healing, a trust in the universal laws which is unwavering, and a strength which is rock-like. But because it is so deep we need both patience and perseverance when digging for it.”

Source : Paul Brunton (1984). “The Notebooks of Paul Brunton”, Larson Publication
“Our major universities are now stuck with an army of pedestrian, toadying careerists, Fifties types who wave around Sixties banners to conceal their record of ruthless, beaver-like tunneling to the top.”
“There are so many great galleries and museums in London, but they can be very crowded during the day.”
“In this age of quick fixes and microwave mindsets, most of us want what we want, and we want it right now, whether it is instant download speed, instant riches, or an Oompa-Loompa, but just as you can't force the farm to produce a harvest, you can't force your seed of potential to grow until it is ripe and ready.”
“To be cool is to believe. To stay cool is to have the sweet fragments of serenity rock your wig away.”
“I see the work the pope has to do. It is a huge responsibility. Nobody campaigns for it.”
“In this year 1634, I purchased the moiety of thirteen houses in the Strand for five hundred and thirty pounds.”

Source : William Lilly, Elias Ashmole (1822). “William Lilly's history of his life and times from the year 1602 to 1681”, p.78

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