"Most Muggles lived in a world defined by the limits of what you could do with cars and telephones. Even though Muggle physics explicitly permitted possibilities like molecular nanotechnology or the Penrose process for extracting energy from black holes, most people filed that away in the same section of their brain that stored fairy tales and history books, well away from their personal realities: Long ago and far away, ever so long ago."

-- Eliezer Yudkowsky

#Book Quotes #Reality Quotes #Long Quotes

“When there is nothing left to hide, there is nothing left to seek.”
“That's what happens when bodies start slapping.”
“Always it is easier to pay homage to prophets than to heed the direction of their vision.”
“I hate everything that comes from the United States. I hate it with all my strength.”
“I've never retired. And I've never said, "I quit."”

Source : Source: www.caranddriver.com
“Thoughtful, energetic, smart, determined. I tried to own and further those qualities and often mustered them up when they were dormant and something wasn't going my way.”
“Oh, what peril attaches to sin willfully committed! For it is so difficult for man to bring himself to penance, and without penitence guilt remains and will ever remain, so long as man retains unchanged the will to sin, or is intent upon committing it.”

Source : Don Cattaneo Marabotto, St. Catherine of Genoa (2015). “The Spiritual Doctrine of St. Catherine of Genoa”, p.208, TAN Books
“My greatest fault is that I am no longer a child”

Source : Janusz Korczak (1998). “A Voice for the Child: The Inspirational Words of Janusz Korczak”, Thorsons Pub

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