"The past is a distraction, a source of envy, enmity, bitterness. Only the present matters, for only in the present can we shape the future. Cut loose the past; it is dead weight. Let the Extirpation continue. Let it never end."

-- Stephen Baxter

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“All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.”
“From seeds of his body blossomed the flower that liberated a people and touched the soul of a nation.”
“I'm at peace with my family, my friends, myself and God so there's really nothing else that I worry about.”
“It's not about one person doing one big thing ... It's about a lot of people doing small things that really make the difference.”
“There is no use in talking as if forgiveness were easy. For we find that the work of forgiveness has to be done over and over again.”
“I love to travel. I think it's the best education to experience how other people live. It reminds us of the abundance and variety we have in the world, but at our essence, we are all the same, we all want the same things: to live well, pursue our dreams, and be happy.”
“It's usually best not to ask philosophers anything, precisely because they have the habit of what in the Persian language is called sanud: the profitless consideration of unsettling yet inconsequential things.”

Source : Nick Harkaway (2008). “The Gone-Away World”, p.380, Random House
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