Dawn

“The original mistake, which was responsible for all this misery, was committed when our scientists began to create a new world of steel and iron and chemistry and electricity and forgot that the human mind is slower than the proverbial turtle, is lazier than the well-known sloth, and marches from one hundred to three hundred years behind the small group of courageous leaders.”
― Hendrik Willem van Loon, The Story of Mankind

“Some people wouldn't recognize the truth if it bit 'em and had 'em for breakfast.”
― Lisa Shearin, The Phoenix Illusion

“For history is like life. The more things change, the more they remain the same.”
― Hendrik Willem van Loon, The Story of Mankind

“Small female children. They're devious, but they're prettier than sons, and they smell better." (The Spirit of the Prophecy to Garion)”
― David Eddings, Seeress of Kell