"Read! Read something every day. Discipline yourself to a regular schedule of reading. In fifteen minutes a day you can read twenty books a year."

-- Wilferd Peterson

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“Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!”

Source : "Happy Birthday to You!". Book by Dr. Seuss, 1959.
“Because the time has come, well and truly come, for all peoples of our great country, for all citizens of our great commonwealth, for all Australians - those who are indigenous and those who are not - to come together to reconcile and together build a new future for our nation.”
“An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring... I ought to know.”
“In America, no other distinction between man and man had ever been known but that of persons in office exercising powers by authority of the laws, and private individuals. Among these last, the poorest laborer stood on equal ground with the wealthiest millionaire, and generally on a more favored one whenever their rights seem to jar.”
“God is not a static thing...but a dynamic, pulsating activity, a life, almost a kind of drama. Almost, if you will not think me irreverent, a kind of dance.”
“What matters to me is that one identifies one's genuine obsessions, one's genuine commitments, one's genuine appetites, one pursues them seriously and far.”
“According to materialistic science, any memory requires a material substrate, such as the neuronal network in the brain or the DNA molecules of the genes.”
“We must mistrust utopias: they usually end in holocausts.”

Source : Mario Vargas Llosa (2013). “Making Waves: Essays 1962-93”, p.150, Faber & Faber

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