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“Never dislike anything in life because you may struggle when you get it.”
― DK Publishing, Inc.

“A man's sexual organ is penis and woman's sexual organ is brains.”
― DK

“Doing Good to others sometimes Brings Bad to you”
― DKPublishing

“the history of mathematics is above all a story of discovery rather than invention.”
― DK Publishing, The Math Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained

“Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another’s skin, another’s voice, another’s soul." Joyce Carol Oates”
― DK Publishing, The Literature Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained

“The League failed to stop a militarist Japan invading Manchuria in 1931 and Italy’s conquest of Ethiopia four years later.”
― D.K. Publishing, The World War II Book

“Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.”
― DK Publishing, The Science Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained

“In our path of life respect the Signals (Parents) to reach our destinations safely”
― Dk

“Thomas Aquinas put forward the basis of modern just war theory, suggesting that war cannot be fought for personal gain and must be waged by a legitimate body, and that the overriding motive must be to secure peace.”
― DK Publishing, The Politics Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained

“Epics are narrative poems that recount the story of a hero who represents a particular culture.”
― DK Publishing, The Literature Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained

“He puts their eyes in a bag and carries them to the crescent moon to feed his own children..." “The Sandman”
― DK Publishing, The Literature Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained

“The function of sociology, as of every science, is to reveal that which is hidden." Pierre Bourdieu”
― DK Publishing, Sosyoloji Kitabı

“For all men tragically great are made so through a certain morbidness … all mortal greatness is but disease." Moby-Dick”
― DK Publishing, The Literature Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained

“All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players." As”
― DK Publishing, The Literature Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained

“I’d like to turn the deepest of yellows, / Falling, drop by drop, in a golden shower, / Into her lap..." Les Amours de Cassandre”
― DK Publishing, The Literature Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained

“Time, which diminishes and erodes all things, increases and augments generous deeds …”
― DK Publishing, The Literature Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained

“Islam is misunderstood by many. The extremists grab the headlines; those of us who want to practise our religion and live under this country’s laws do not make the news.” Sadiq Khan Mayor of London since 2016”
― D.K. Publishing, The Islam Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained

“The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves." Oedipus”
― DK Publishing, The Literature Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained

“Women are supposed to be very calm generally: but women feel just as men feel; they need exercise for their faculties and a field for their efforts as much as their brothers do." Jane Eyre”
― DK Publishing, The Literature Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained

“The revolutions in France and North America near the end of the 18th century were founded on liberal ideas. In fact, Thomas Jefferson, one of the architects of the American Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, revered Locke, and used many of his phrases in the founding documents. The emphasis on protection of “life, liberty, or property” found in the Bill of Rights in the Constitution, and the inalienable rights to “Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness” in the Declaration can all be traced directly back to John Locke’s philosophy a century earlier.”
― DK Publishing, The Politics Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained

“Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon ’em." Twelfth Night”
― DK Publishing, The Literature Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained

“Human beings must understand that they only inhabit, rather than own, the Earth, and that only resources that satisfy vital means must be used.”
― DK Publishing, The Politics Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained

“The ultimate aim of history is human self-knowledge. In the words of 20th-century historian R G Collingwood: “The value of history is that it teaches us what man has done and thus what man is.”
― DK Publishing, The History Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained

“The white man is very clever … He has put a knife on things that held us together and we have fallen apart." Things Fall Apart”
― DK Publishing, The Literature Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained

“We are not makers of history. We are made by history.”
― DK Publishing, The History Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained

“Oh I am burning! I wish I were out of doors—I wish I were a girl again, half savage and hardy, and free." Wuthering Heights”
― DK Publishing, The Literature Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained

“US linguist and political philosopher Noam Chomsky’s view is that in most countries a wealthy minority controls the key social and political institutions, such as the mass media and the financial system, ensuring that the functioning of modern society favors a powerful elite. In turn, this means that dissent and meaningful change are nearly impossible, because the dominant institutional structures in society—from newspapers to banks—focus on maintaining their positions to their mutual benefit.”
― DK Publishing, The Politics Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained

“Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind." Don Quixote”
― DK Publishing, The Literature Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained

“Endure the hardships of your present state, Live, and reserve yourselves for better fate.”
― DK Publishing, The Literature Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained

“Cyber security like a game of chess, its main challenge not to win, but never surrender.”
― D.K.