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"The great ones do not belong in to a hyperplane and the only thing we need are more eyes" — Aug 13, 2016 10:57PM
"The great ones do not belong in to a hyperplane and the only thing we need are more eyes" — Aug 13, 2016 10:57PM
If ever I should wish for a retreat whither I might steal from the world and its distractions, and dream quietly away the remnant of a troubled life, I know of none more promising than this little valley.
“On the whole, he thinks that Barclay's devotion to his wife was greater than his wife's to Barclay. He was acutely uneasy if he were absent from her for a day. She, on the other hand, though devoted and faithful, was less obtrusively affectionate.”
― Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Collection [newly updated]
― Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Collection [newly updated]
“Technology, I said before, is most powerful when it enables transitions—between linear and circular motion (the wheel), or between real and virtual space (the Internet). Science,”
― The Gene: An Intimate History
― The Gene: An Intimate History
“When you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”
― The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet - a Sherlock Holmes Short Story
― The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet - a Sherlock Holmes Short Story
“Yet none of these things exists outside the stories that people invent and tell one another. There are no gods in the universe, no nations, no money, no human rights, no laws and no justice outside the common imagination of human beings.”
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
“How many young college graduates have taken demanding jobs in high-powered firms, vowing that they will work hard to earn money that will enable them to retire and pursue their real interests when they are thirty-five? But by the time they reach that age, they have large mortgages, children to school, houses in the suburbs that necessitate at least two cars per family, and a sense that life is not worth living without really good wine and expensive holidays abroad. What are they supposed to do, go back to digging up roots? No, they double their efforts and keep slaving away.”
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
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