"Books are infinite in number and time is short. The secret of knowledge is to take what is essential. Take that and try to live up to it."

-- Swami Vivekananda

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“Cars are little privacy cocoons that we take with us. If you could refuel while driving you could, theoretically, stay moving forever.”

Source : Barry Lyga (2009). “Boy Toy”, p.34, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Abruptness is an eloquence in parting, when spinning out the time is but the weaving of new sorrow.”
“The finest clothing made is a person's own skin, but, of course, society demands something more than this.”
“The light ones may be killers, the dark ones mild; not the wrappers but the fillers, make cigars or women wild.”
“As its best, SF is the medium in which our miserable certainty that tomorrow will be different from today in ways we cant predict, can be transmuted to a sense of excitement and anticipation, occasionally evolving into awe. Poised between intransigent scepticism and uncritical credulity, it is par excellence the literature of the open mind.”
“Steve Jobs is a national treasure. He is so visionary, and so bright. I had to fire him, though.”
“It is for truth that God created genius.”
“Within the Nazi Party, the beginnings of a personality cult around Hitler go back to the year before the [Munich] putsch... Outside these small groups of fanatical Bavarian Nazis, Hitler's image and reputation at this time - so far as the wider German public took any notice of him at all - was little more than that of a vulgar demagogue, capable of drumming up passionate opposition to the government among the Munich mob, but of little else.”

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