"Printer's ink has been running a race against gunpowder these many, many years. Ink is handicapped, in a way, because you can blow up a man with gunpowder in half a second, while it may take twenty years to blow him up with a book. But the gunpowder destroys itself along with its victim, while a book can keep on exploding for centuries."

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Source : Christopher Morley (2013). “The Haunted Bookshop”, p.90, Melville House

Christopher Morley

#Running Quotes #Book Quotes #Science Quotes

“A generation that hates war will not bring peace. A generation that loves peace will bring peace.”

Source : Jane Roberts, Seth (1972). “Seth speaks: the eternal validity of the soul”, Bookthrift Co
“Italy, and the spring and first love all together should suffice to make the gloomiest person happy.”
“There's a character that I play onstage, and I can't let him loose in the supermarket when I'm buying my beans on toast.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“So that makes us robbers of robbers," said Bug, "who pretend to be robbers working for a robber of other robbers.”
“The window of opportunity to avoid dangerous climate change is closing more quickly than previously thought.”
“While [Plato] affirmed with emphasis that the place of the individual in society should not be determined by birth or wealth or any conventional status, but by his own nature as discovered in the process of education, he had no perception of the uniqueness of individuals. For him they fall by nature into classes, and into a very small number of classes at that.”
“I'm very resourceful. I'd be good in prison. I'd be good in a shipwreck. I'd make a great hostage.”
“As an actor, all you want to do is to work and do good work.”

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