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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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Horace Mann
“Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.”
Horace Mann

René Descartes
“The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.”
René Descartes

Bertrand Russell
“There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.”
Bertrand Russell

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.”
Marcel Proust, Days of Reading

Douglas Adams
“Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?”
Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

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