"What refuge is there for the victim who is oppressed with the feeling that there are a thousand new books he ought to read, while life is only long enough for him to attempt to read a hundred?"

-- Oliver Wendell Holmes

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“Maybe all the schemes of the devil were nothing compared to what man could think up.”
“The educator shall help the young to educate themselves in opposition to the age.”

Source : Georg Brandes (2015). “Friedrich Nietzsche (English Edition)”, p.6, WILLIAM HEINEMANN
“When one has talent, everything contributes to its development.”
“But not all of them are decorated to the same level of taste.”
“I wrote poetry, journals, and, especially, plays for the neighborhood kids to perform. I had an ordinary, happy childhood. Nothing much was going on, but I had fun.”
“People have just assumed that... if we call our Facebook acquaintances our friends, we must be influenced by them, too. But we're not.”

Source : "Ted 2010 | Nicholas Christakis: Does This Social Network Make Me Look Fat?". Interview with Kim Zetter, www.wired.com. February 12, 2010.
“I think you'll do as well as most professionals. Most professionals don't beat the market. Let's not over-rate my industry. But if you have time, you can be in good mutual funds that have good records.”
“It is important that when we are engaged in admonition or exhortation or confrontation with a brother who is overcome in sin, we call attention to the truth in an extraordinarily compassionate and tender and loving spirit.”

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