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“To live in the world without becoming aware of the meaning of the world is like wandering about in a great library without touching the books.”
― The Lost Symbol
― The Lost Symbol
“The geologist takes up the history of the earth at the point where the archaeologist leaves it, and carries it further back into remote antiquity.”
― The Arctic Home in the Vedas
― The Arctic Home in the Vedas
“We're in a giant car heading towards a brick wall and everyones arguing over where they're going to sit”
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“We rich nations, for that is what we are, have an obligation not only to the poor nations, but to all the grandchildren of the world, rich and poor. We have not inherited this earth from our parents to do with it what we will. We have borrowed it from our children and we must be careful to use it in their interests as well as our own. Anyone who fails to recognise the basic validity of the proposition put in different ways by increasing numbers of writers, from Malthus to The Club of Rome, is either ignorant, a fool, or evil.”
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“What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?”
― Familiar letters
― Familiar letters
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