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“Любой школьник на уроках физики может поставить опыт, чтобы убедиться в правильности той или иной научной гипотезы. Но человек, проживающий одну-единственную жизнь, лишён возможности проверить гипотезу опытным путём, и ему не дано узнать, должен был он или не должен был подчиниться своему чувству.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“Entering a novel is like going on a climb in the mountains: you have to learn the rhythm of respiration, acquire the pace; otherwise you stop right away.”
― Umberto Eco, Postscript to the Name of the Rose

“A trap is only a trap if you don't know about it. If you know about it, it's a challenge.”
― China Miéville, King Rat

“Some things in life are out of your control. You can make it a party or a tragedy.”
― Nora Roberts, Vision in White

“Не думайте, що коли-небудь без великої праці і без широкого знання можна було б написати що-небудь великого і вічно живучого.”
― Ivan Franko

“Нехай життя - момент і зложене з моментів,
Ми вічність носимо в душі.”
― Іван Франко

“Ох, тії очі темніші ночі,
Хто в них задивиться, й сонця не схоче!”
― Іван Франко, Зів'яле листя

“She was not a slowpoke grownup. She was a girl who could not wait. Life was so interesting she had to find out what happened next.”
― Beverly Cleary, Ramona the Pest

“If she can't spell, why is she a librarian? Librarians should know how to spell.”
― Ramona Quimby as written by Beverly Cleary, Ramona's World

“Quite often somebody will say, 'What year do your books take place?' and the only answer I can give is, in childhood.”
― Beverly Cleary

“To paraphrase an old joke among programmers, “Writing code accounts for 90 percent of programming. Debugging code accounts for the other 90 percent.” Your computer will do only what you tell it to do; it won’t read your mind and do what you intended it to do. Even professional programmers create bugs all the time, so don’t feel discouraged if your program has a problem.”
― Albert Sweigart, Automate the Boring Stuff with Python: Practical Programming for Total Beginners

“The difference between treason and patriotism is only a matter of dates.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo