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“In other centuries, human beings wanted to be saved, or improved, or freed, or educated. But in our century, they want to be entertained. The great fear is not of disease or death, but of boredom. A sense of time on our hands, a sense of nothing to do. A sense that we are not amused.”
― Timeline
― Timeline
“The rock, for its part, is not even aware of our existence because we are alive for only a brief instant of its lifespan. To it, we are like flashes in the dark.”
― The Andromeda Strain
― The Andromeda Strain
“It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them.”
― By-Line: Ernest Hemingway - Selected Articles and Dispatches of Four Decades
― By-Line: Ernest Hemingway - Selected Articles and Dispatches of Four Decades
“Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.”
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“Professor Johnston often said that if you didn't know history, you didn't know anything. You were a leaf that didn't know it was part of a tree.”
― Timeline
― Timeline
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