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“…often women aren’t allowed to be characters in history, they have to be stereotypes. Cleopatra was a poet and a philosopher, she was incredibly good at maths; she wasn’t that much of a looker. But when we think of her, we think: big breasted seductress bathing in milk. Often, even when women have made their mark and they are remembered by history, we are offered a fantasy version of their lives.”
― Bettany Hughes

“A man must learn to recognize values.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises

“Here's the reason why the peasant is wise. He's wise because he's beaten from the very start. Give him power and then you'll see how wise he is.”
― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

“One who hesitates, digs himself a grave.”
― Jan Guillou, The Kingdom at the End of the Road

“The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it.”
― Dorothy L. Sayers

“In wine there is wisdom, in beer there is Freedom, in water there is bacteria.”
― Benjamin Franklin

“Physicists are made of atoms. A physicist is an attempt by an atom to understand itself.”
― Michio Kaku, Parallel Worlds: A Journey through Creation, Higher Dimensions, and the Future of the Cosmos

“O, the word rises, but thought crawls,
And word without thought comes difficult to heaven.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“every plan breaks easily,
Because the intention is a slave to memory
At the moment of birth, it digs itself a grave,
Like a fruit, that holds to a branch, while green.
And when it matures, it falls itself from the three.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet