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    Lemony Snicket
    “Wicked people never have time for reading. It's one of the reasons for their wickedness.”
    ― Lemony Snicket
    tags: humor-wicked-reading
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    Isaac Asimov
    “The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not "Eureka!" (I found it!) but 'That's funny...”
    ― Isaac Asimov
    tags: attributed-no-source
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    Arthur C. Clarke
    “One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion. So now people assume that religion and morality have a necessary connection. But the basis of morality is really very simple and doesn't require religion at all.”
    ― Arthur C. Clarke
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    Isaac Asimov
    “Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.”
    ― Isaac Asimov
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    Carl Sagan
    “Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.”
    ― Carl Sagan
    tags: astronomer, science, writer
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    Arthur C. Clarke
    “How inappropriate to call this planet "Earth," when it is clearly "Ocean.”
    ― Arthur C. Clarke
    tags: science, science-fiction
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    Arthur C. Clarke
    “Magic's just science that we don't understand yet.”
    ― Arthur C. Clarke
    tags: magic, science
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    Arthur C. Clarke
    “In my life I have found two things of priceless worth - learning and loving. Nothing else - not fame, not power, not achievement for its own sake - can possible have the same lasting value. For when your life is over, if you can say 'I have learned' and 'I have loved,' you will also be able to say 'I have been happy.”
    ― Arthur C. Clarke, Rama II
    tags: science-fiction
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    Arthur C. Clarke
    “It was the mark of a barbarian to destroy something one could not understand.”
    ― Arthur C. Clarke, 2001: A Space Odyssey
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    Albert Schweitzer
    “Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace.”
    ― Albert Schweitzer
    tags: compassion, ethics, peace, vegetarianism
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    Maya Angelou
    “This is the role of the mother. And in that visit I really saw clearly, for the first time, why a mother is really important. Not just because she feeds and also loves and also cuddles... but because in an interesting and and maybe an eerie and other worldly way, she stands in the gap. She stands between the unknown and the known.”
    ― Maya Angelou, Mom & Me & Mom
    tags: love, mothers
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    Maya Angelou
    “No matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.”
    ― Maya Angelou
    tags: inspirational-quotes
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    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: action, change, inspirational, misattributed-to-gandhi, philosophy, wish
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    Maya Angelou
    “I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
    ― Maya Angelou
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    Ray Bradbury
    “You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.”
    ― Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You
    tags: writing
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    Arthur C. Clarke
    “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
    ― Arthur C. Clarke, Profiles of the Future: An Inquiry into the Limits of the Possible
    tags: magic, science, technology, wonder
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    Arthur C. Clarke
    “Before you become too entranced with gorgeous gadgets and mesmerizing video displays, let me remind you that information is not knowledge, knowledge is not wisdom, and wisdom is not foresight. Each grows out of the other, and we need them all.”
    ― Arthur C. Clarke
    tags: technology, wisdom
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    J.B.S. Haldane
    “The Universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose.”
    ― J.B.S. Haldane, Possible Worlds
    tags: imagination, misattributed-arthur-c-clarke, physics, science, universe
    116 likes

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    Arthur C. Clarke
    “Sometimes when I'm in a bookstore or library, I am overwhelmed by all the things that I do not know. Then I am seized by a powerful desire to read all the books, one by one.”
    ― Arthur C Clarke
    tags: rama-ii
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    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.”
    ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust, First Part
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    Joan Didion
    “I don't know what I think until I write it down.”
    ― Joan Didion
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    Arthur C. Clarke
    “Now I understand,” said the last man.”
    ― Arthur C. Clarke, Childhood’s End
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    Arthur C. Clarke
    “There were some things that only time could cure. Evil men could be destroyed, but nothing could be done with good men who were deluded.”
    ― Arthur C. Clarke, Childhood’s End
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    Arthur C. Clarke
    “Science is the only religion of mankind.”
    ― Arthur C. Clarke, Childhood’s End
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    Arthur C. Clarke
    “It is a bitter thought, but you must face it. The planets you may one day possess. But the stars are not for man.”
    ― Arthur C. Clarke, Childhood's End
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    Neil Gaiman
    “Books were safer than other people anyway.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane
    tags: book-lovers, book-quotes, books, bookworms, love-for-books
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    Patricia A. McKillip
    “The odd thing about people who had many books was how they always wanted more.”
    ― Patricia A. McKillip, The Bell at Sealey Head
    tags: bibliophiles, book-lovers, books, readers, reading
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  • #31
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul
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  • #32
    Mark Twain
    “Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: books, contentment, friends, friendship, life
    47047 likes



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