"I've loved you since the day I stole the atlas for you," Gabriel says, because he thinks I'm asleep."

-- Lauren DeStefano

#Thinking Quotes #Atlas Quotes #Gabriel Quotes

“People have their faults, but it doesn't prevent you from loving them.”

Source : Source: www.huffingtonpost.com
“I just went to Hebrew school, had a bar mitzvah. No crazy weird Jewish cult.”

Source : Interview with Curt Schleier, forward.com. November 2, 2011.
“I have never been able to understand the artist whose image never changes.”
“People who object to weapons aren't abolishing violence, they're begging for rule by brute force, when the biggest, strongest animals among men were always automatically 'right.' Guns ended that, and social democracy is a hollow farce without an armed populace to make it work.”

Source : L. Neil Smith (2001). “The Probability Broach”, p.121, Macmillan
“I was fine with that. The very idea of Death knowing my name made my skin crawl. Even if this particular Death was only one of many, and almost too pretty to look at.”
“It is in war that the State really comes into its own: swelling in power, in number, in pride, in absolute dominion over the economy and the society.”
“A desire for privacy does not imply shameful secrets; Moglen argues, again and again, that without anonymity in discourse, free speech is impossible, and hence also democracy. The right to speak the truth to power does not shield the speaker from the consequences of doing so; only comparable power or anonymity can do that.”

Source : Nick Harkaway (2012). “The Blind Giant: Being Human in a Digital World”, p.145, Vintage
“Our whole evolution up to this point shows that human groups spontaneously evolve patterns of behavior, as well as patterns of training people for that behavior, which tend on balance to lead people to create rather than destroy. Humans are, on net balance, builders rather than destroyers.”

Source : Julian Lincoln Simon (1998). “The Ultimate Resource 2”, p.75, Princeton University Press

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