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“How soon country people forget. When they fall in love with a city it is forever, and it is like forever. As though there never was a time when they didn't love it. The minute they arrive at the train station or get off the ferry and glimpse the wide streets and the wasteful lamps lighting them, they know they are born for it. There, in a city, they are not so much new as themselves: their stronger, riskier selves.”
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“Tôi biết, chối bỏ là một hình thức rõ rệt của phản bội. Bên ngoài không thể phân biệt được ai đó chối bỏ hay chỉ kín đáo, tôn trọng người khác, tránh rắc rối và phiền phức. Nhưng người nào không chịu thú nhận, người đó biết rõ. Sự chối bỏ làm hại đến mối quan hệ không khác gì phản bội trắng trợn.”
― The Reader
― The Reader
“Whenever the horse stopped (which it did very often), he fell off in front; and, whenever it went on again (which it generally did rather suddenly), he fell off behind. Otherwise he kept on pretty well, except that he had a habit of now and then falling off sideways; and, as he generally did this on the side on which Alice was walking, she soon found that it was the best plan not to walk quite close to the horse.”
― Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass: Illustrated by John Tenniel
― Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass: Illustrated by John Tenniel
“The girl hurried away, but then Pippi shouted, "Did he have big ears that reached way down to his shoulders?"
"No," said the girl and turned and came running back in amazement. "You don't mean to say that you have seen a man walk by with such big ears?"
"I have never seen anyone who walks with his ears," said Pippi. "All the people I know walk with their feet.”
― Pippi Longstocking
"No," said the girl and turned and came running back in amazement. "You don't mean to say that you have seen a man walk by with such big ears?"
"I have never seen anyone who walks with his ears," said Pippi. "All the people I know walk with their feet.”
― Pippi Longstocking
“Still later, after the invention of saddles and stirrups, horses allowed the Huns and successive waves of other peoples from the Asian steppes to terrorize the Roman Empire and its successor states, culminating in the Mongol conquests of much of Asia and Russia in the 13th and 14th centuries A.D. Only with the introduction of trucks and tanks in World War I did horses finally become supplanted as the main assault vehicle and means of fast transport in war. Arabian and Bactrian camels played a similar military role within their geographic range. In all these examples, peoples with domestic horses (or camels), or with improved means of using them, enjoyed an enormous military advantage over those without them.”
― Guns, Germs, and Steel
― Guns, Germs, and Steel
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