The history of the world teaches that the power of joy in people doesn’t come in getting, it always comes in giving, contributing, adding more. The more you give, the more you live. If you’re about something better, live for something
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“The girl? She was a time bomb. The family had been feeding her subconscious, I'm sure, from what I saw of her school record. She didn't want to know how a thing was done, but why. That can be embarrassing. You ask Why to a lot of things and you wind up very unhappy indeed, if you keep at it. The poor girl's better off dead.”
― Fahrenheit 451
― Fahrenheit 451
“What you’re selling, Zig explained, is not the product. It’s a lifestyle. A philosophy. A dream. The product is irrelevant. Zig’s stock phrase (‘You can get everything you wish for out of life when you first help other people with what they wish for’) became Igor’s stock phrase too.”
― The Missing Cryptoqueen
― The Missing Cryptoqueen
“How rarely did other people's faces take of you and throw back to you your own expression, your own innermost trembling thought?”
― Fahrenheit 451
― Fahrenheit 451
“And for the first time I realized that a man was behind each one of the books. A man had to think them up. A man had to take a long time to put them down on paper. And I'd never even thought that thought before.”
― Fahrenheit 451
― Fahrenheit 451
“My parents taught us that wealth or position can be taken away, but no one can take the knowledge in your head.”
― Call Me an American: Refugee to Patriot: Lessons Learned for a Strong America
― Call Me an American: Refugee to Patriot: Lessons Learned for a Strong America
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