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In the twentieth century, power announced itself. In the twenty-first, the surest way to spot real power is by its understatement.
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“Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.”
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“Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.”
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Marcel Proust
“There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we believe we left without having lived them, those we spent with a favorite book.”
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René Descartes
“The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.”
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L.P. Hartley
“The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.”
L.P. Hartley, The Go-Between

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