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“Her husband's visage captivated her from the first moment she saw him step out of the royal carriage a hundred years ago. How could it not? Flaminius was utterly gorgeous. But once she fell in love with him, she became happily enslaved.”
― Therisa Peimer, Taming Flame

“I remember Mac retorting that hundreds of years ago there was a Hindi word for a craft that flew in the air, long before the airplane was invented, but that did not mean that airplanes existed in ancient India.”
― Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom

“The more people we exclude, the more people will want to join. That’s what exclusive means.”
― Katherine Dunn, Geek Love

“men live peacefully as long as their old way of life is maintained and there is no change in customs.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince