Things sometimes fell apart unexpectedly. It was not necessarily a reflection of how much they were valued.
“Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.”
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“we emphatically do not want to find that we have reached such a state of dearth in our society that we must provide food banks for the imagination as well as, as we so regrettably have to do today, for the physical body.”
― The Librarian
― The Librarian
“Things sometimes fell apart unexpectedly. It was not necessarily a reflection of how much they were valued.”
― Kingdom of the Blind
― Kingdom of the Blind
“As we age, we sleep less soundly: one evolutionary explanation is that in the ancestral environment the young hunters and warriors required undisturbed sleep, while the older members of the tribe acted as watchdogs and needed to be woken by the slightest noise.”
― The Rosie Effect
― The Rosie Effect
“I had noted some of my own personality traits in the descriptions, but humans consistently over-recognise patterns and draw erroneous conclusions based on them.”
― The Rosie Effect
― The Rosie Effect
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