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“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”
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“Once, when a religionist denounced me in unmeasured terms, I sent him a card saying, "I am sure you believe that I will go to hell when I die, and that once there I will suffer all the pains and tortures the sadistic ingenuity of your deity can devise and that this torture will continue forever. Isn't that enough for you? Do you have to call me bad names in addition?”
― I. Asimov: A Memoir
― I. Asimov: A Memoir
“Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments.”
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“They won't listen. Do you know why? Because they have certain fixed notions about the past. Any change would be blasphemy in their eyes, even if it were the truth. They don't want the truth; they want their traditions.”
― Pebble in the Sky
― Pebble in the Sky
“Old men tend to forget what thought was like in their youth; they forget the quickness of the mental jump, the daring of the youthful intuition, the agility of the fresh insight. They become accustomed to the more plodding varieties of reason, and because this is more than made up by the accumulation of experience, old men think themselves wiser than the young.”
― Pebble in the Sky
― Pebble in the Sky
Irini’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Irini’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
123 books
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437 books
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705 books
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5,332 books
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1,427 books
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545 books
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212 books
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48 friends
383 books
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4,948 friends
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