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“Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.”
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“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
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“Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.”
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“Always be a poet, even in prose.”
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“You know what the fellow said – in Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace – and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.”
― The Third Man
― The Third Man
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