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The 12th Planet
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Rig-Veda Book 1
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Vaishali Vaishali said: " I know, I know… a British scholar :( Already this is rife with translation errors, ostensibly to quench the early 20th century English audience. Even called the Asuras “dragons”. Until I can get my hands on a Sanskrit-English version of all 10 books ...more "

 
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Francis Bacon
“If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.”
Francis Bacon, The Oxford Francis Bacon IV: The Advancement of Learning

Ralph Waldo Emerson
“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Voltaire
“Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.”
Voltaire

William Shakespeare
“My bounty is as boundless as the sea,
My love as deep; the more I give to thee,
The more I have, for both are infinite.”
William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

J.R.R. Tolkien
“All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.”
J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

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