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“I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“You know — you know the trial you found me in? The one with Crouch’s son? Well . . . were they talking about Neville’s parents?”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

“His father, Frank, was an Auror just like Professor Moody. He and his wife were tortured for information about Voldemort’s whereabouts after he lost his powers, as you heard.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

“Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.”
― Lin Yutang, The Importance of Living

“If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live”
― Lin Yutang

“There is something in the nature of tea that leads us into a world of quiet contemplation of life.”
― Lin Yutang, The Importance of Living

“Potter’s map of Hogwarts. Potter saw me on it. Potter saw me stealing more ingredients for the Polyjuice Potion from Snape’s office one night. He thought I was my father. We have the same first name. I took the map from Potter that night. I told him my father hated Dark wizards. Potter believed my father was after Snape.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

“Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it. You have shown bravery beyond anything I could have expected of you. I ask you to demonstrate your courage one more time. I ask you to tell us what happened.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

“You place too much importance, and you always have done, on the so-called purity of blood! You fail to recognize that it matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be!”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

“We can fight it only by showing an equally strong bond of friendship and trust. Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

“We will see each uzzer again, I ’ope,” said Fleur as she reached him, holding out her hand. “I am ’oping to get a job ’ere, to improve my Eenglish.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

“Promises may get thee friends, but non-performance will turn them into enemies.”
― Benjamin Franklin, Wit and Wisdom

“A house without woman and firelight, is like a Body without soul or sprite.”
― Benjamin Franklin, Wit and Wisdom

“All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or back gammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and wrong, with moral questions; and betting naturally accompanies it. The character of the voters is not staked. I cast my vote, perchance, as I think right; but I am not vitally concerned that that right should prevail. I am willing to leave it to the majority. Its obli­gation, therefore, never exceeds that of expediency. Even voting for the right is doing nothing for it. It is only expressing to men feebly your desire that it should prevail. A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority.”
― Henry David Thoreau, On the Duty of Civil Disobedience

“I can afford to refuse allegiance to Massachusetts, and her right to my property and life. It costs me less in every sense to incur the penalty of disobedience to the State than it would to obey. I should feel as if I were worth less in that case.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience

“The headquarters of the Order of the Phoenix may be found at number twelve, Grimmauld Place, London.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

“It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow-beings.66”
― Mahatma Gandhi, Gandhi's Life in His Own Words

“I do not want to bring anyone to book. I am sure that, when the truth becomes known, they will be sorry for their conduct.’75”
― Mahatma Gandhi, Gandhi's Life in His Own Words

“My uniform experience has convinced me that there is no other God than Truth. And if every page of these chapters does not proclaim to the reader that the only means for the realization of Truth is ahimsa, I shall deem all my labour in writing these chapters to have been in vain. And, even though my efforts in this behalf may prove fruitless, let the readers know that the vehicle, not the great principle, is at fault.”
― Mahatma Gandhi, Gandhi's Life in His Own Words

“Harry wiped the lenses of his glasses with his Trevor-free hand. A very pretty girl with long, shiny black hair was standing in the doorway smiling at him: Cho Chang, the Seeker on the Ravenclaw Quidditch team. “Oh . . . hi,” said Harry blankly. “Um . . .” said Cho. “Well . . . just thought I’d say hello . . . ’bye then.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

“You have given me a teacher in Thoreau, who furnished me through his essay on the ‘Duty of Civil Disobedience’ scientific confirmation of what I was doing in South Africa. Great Britain gave me Ruskin, whose Unto This Last transformed me overnight from a lawyer and city dweller into a rustic living away from Durban on a farm, three miles from the nearest railway station; and Russia gave me in Tolstoy a teacher who furnished a reasoned basis for my non-violence.”
― Mahatma Gandhi, Gandhi's Life in His Own Words

“story short, my return to India found me in no time one with India’s women. The easy access I had to their hearts was an agreeable revelation to me. Muslim sisters never kept purdah before me here, even as they did not in South Africa. I sleep in the ashram surrounded by women, for they feel safe with me in every respect. It should be remembered that there is no privacy in the Segaon Ashram.”
― Mahatma Gandhi, Gandhi's Life in His Own Words

“Tesla had filed a patent in 1901 for an “Apparatus for the Utilization of Radiant Energy” (Patent #685,957) – essentially, a solar panel.”
― Captivating History, Tesla Vs Edison: A Captivating Guide to the War of the Currents and the Life of Nikola Tesla and Thomas Edison

“Tesla was, at first, unconcerned with his competitor’s progress and remarked, "Marconi is a good fellow. Let him continue. He is using 17 of my patents." Later, however, Tesla would sue Marconi for stealing his ideas. In 1943, the Supreme Court would overturn Marconi’s patent in recognition that Tesla was the original inventor of radio transmission.”
― Captivating History, Tesla Vs Edison: A Captivating Guide to the War of the Currents and the Life of Nikola Tesla and Thomas Edison

“I had gone there to see an applicant for the post of Divination teacher, though it was against my inclination to allow the subject of Divination to continue at all. The applicant, however, was the great-great-granddaughter of a very famous, very gifted Seer, and I thought it common politeness to meet her. I was disappointed. It seemed to me that she had not a trace of the gift herself.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

“Edison himself once said, “When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this—you haven’t.” Often criticized for being a re-inventor: someone who rode on the coattails of others, Edison had his own peculiar talent for seeing flaws and working obsessively to improve and refine concepts and designs to make them functional and to develop streamlined and inexpensive means of manufacture for the inventions that were most in demand.”
― Captivating History, Tesla Vs Edison: A Captivating Guide to the War of the Currents and the Life of Nikola Tesla and Thomas Edison

“忠厚老实人的恶毒，像饭里的沙砾或者出骨鱼片里未净的刺，会给人一种不期待的伤痛。”
― Qian Zhongshu, Fortress Besieged

“No? Then listen to this. It is my belief that throughout the history of the positronic robot, the First Law of Robotics has been deliberately misquoted.” Leebig moved spasmodically. “Misquoted? Fool! Madman! Why?” “To hide the fact,” said Baley with complete composure, “that robots can commit murder.”
― Isaac Asimov, The Naked Sun