"It was as if Hannah had sprung a leak and her character, usually so meticulous and contained, was spilling all over the place."

-- Marisha Pessl

#Character Quotes #Meticulous Quotes #Spilling Quotes

“It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law”

Source : Thomas Hobbes, Alan Cromartie, Quentin Skinner (2005). “Thomas Hobbes: Writings on Common Law and Hereditary Right: A Dialogue Between a Philosopher and a Student, of the Common Laws of England. Questions Relative to Hereditary Right”, p.10, Oxford University Press
“After the atomic bombs were dropped, the war ended and we went into Tokyo Bay with the rest of the fleet, the Missouri and the rest of them, while they signed the terms of surrender that ended the war.”
“Details are all there are.”
“There are lots of Linux users who don't care how the kernel works, but only want to use it. That is a tribute to how good Linux is.”
“A life of kindness is the primary meaning of divine worship.”
“We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.”

Source : "The Man and His Ideas". Book by Richard Isadore Evans (p. 73), 1968.
“American democracy and the Soviet system may peacefully exist side by side and compete with each other. But one cannot evolve into the other.”

Source : Source: www.marxists.org
“First you use machines, then you wear machines, and then ...? Then you serve machines.”

Source : John Brunner (2011). “Stand on Zanzibar”, p.225, Macmillan

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