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“It's not about how much you read, but, how much you work what you read.”
― Unverified

“Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.”
― Albert Camus

“One day I was counting the cats and I absent-mindedly counted myself.”
― Bobbie Ann Mason, Shiloh and Other Stories

“We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard.

[Address at Rice University, September 12 1962]”
― John F. Kennedy

“If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.”
― C.S. Lewis

“The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.”
― C.S. Lewis

“في هذا الزمن يتصور بعضنا أنه ممثل الرب في الأرض و أنه الوحيد الذي اطلع علي المقصد الإلهي من كل نصوصه دون غيره من البشر و من ثم ينفي و يصادر و يكفر رأياً يخالفه لأن رأيه هو الصواب المطلق و رأي أي مختلف معه هو الكفر المطلق”
― سيد القمني, أهل الدين والديمقراطية

“instantaneous cube exist?' 'Don't follow you,' said Filby. 'Can a cube that does not last for any time at all, have a real existence?”
― H.G. Wells, The Time Machine