"Books were to my family's house like beds and stoves, the most basic items, necessary for survival"

-- Nora Gallagher

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“The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance.”

Source : Henry Ward Beecher (1873). “The Original Plymouth Pulpit: Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn”, p.509
“Planets are too dim to be detected with existing equipment, far away, except in these very special circumstances where they're seen by their gravitational effect”
“Play stimulates the parts of the brain involved in both careful, logical reasoning and carefree, unbound exploration.”

Source : "Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less". Book by Greg McKeown, 2014.
“Time, as is well known, sometimes flies like a bird and sometimes crawls like a worm, but human beings are generally particularly happy when they don't notice whether it's passing quickly or slowly.”

Source : Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev, Elizabeth Cheresh Allen (1994). “The essential Turgenev”, Northwestern Univ Pr
“Hope is a psychological mechanism unaffected by external realities.”
“The sickness of indulging desires can be treated, but the sickness of clinging to abstract principles is hard to treat. Obstacles presented by events and objects can be removed, but obstacles presented by social principles are hard to remove.”
“Karl Marx made a great contribution to the liberation cause of mankind, and because of his immortal exploits his name is still enshrined in the hearts of the working class and peoples of all countries.”

Source : "Let us advance under the banner of Marxism-Leninism and the Juche Idea". Speech on the occasion of the 165th birthday of Karl Marx and the Centenary of his death, May 03, 1983.
“A studio, like a poem, is an intimacy and a freedom you can look out from, into each part of your life and a little beyond.”

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