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“Wikipedia is so dangerous.”
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“Friendship, then, like the other natural loves, is unable to save itself. In reality, because it is spiritual and therefore faces a subtler enemy, it must, even more wholeheartedly than they, invoke the divine protection if it hopes to remain sweet. For consider how narrow its true path is. Is must not become what the people call a "mutual admiration society"; yet if it is not full of mutual admiration, of Appreciative love, it is not Friendship at all.”
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“To be gay and out of shape is almost as much of a stigma as just being gay used to be.”
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“So powerful is the charm of words, which for us reduces to manageable entities all the passions that would otherwise madden and destroy us.”
Source : Gene Wolfe (1994). “Shadow & Claw: The First Half of 'The Book of the New Sun'”, p.151, Macmillan
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“For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers. I revere them when they live in tribes and families, in forests and groves. And even more I revere them when they stand alone. They are like lonely persons. Not like hermits who have stolen away out of some weakness, but like great, solitary men, like Beethoven and Nietzsche.”
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“Mathematics is a vast adventure; its history reflects some of the noblest thoughts of countless generations.”
Source : Dirk Jan Struik (1987). “A Concise History of Mathematics”, p.1, Courier Corporation
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“Everyday is filled with opportunities to take a quiet moment”
Source : Dana Reinhardt (2009). “How to Build a House”, p.67, Wendy Lamb Books
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“Never say you are five feet nine when you are five feet eight and a half" was the first one I encountered. Another was, "Always say some prayers at night because it might turn out that there is a God.”
