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“The proud tower built up through the great age of European civilization was an edifice of grandeur and passion, of riches and beauty and dark cellars. Its inhabitants lived, as compared to a later time, with more self-reliance, more confidence, more hope; greater magnificence, extravagance and elegance; more careless ease, more gaiety, more pleasure in each other's company and conversation, more injustice and hypocrisy, more misery and want, more sentiment including false sentiment, less sufferance of mediocrity, more dignity in work, more delight in nature, more zest. The Old World had much that has since been lost, whatever may have been gained. Looking back on it from 1915, Emile Verhaeren, the Belgian Socialist poet, dedicated his pages, "With emotion, to the man I used to be.”
― The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
― The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
“Early to bed and early to rise," Mazer intoned, "makes a man stupid and blind in the eyes.”
― Ender’s Game
― Ender’s Game
“See, if you look at the drug war from a purely economic point of view, the role of the government is to protect the drug cartel. That's literally true.”
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“We all know what to do, but we don’t know how to get re-elected once we have done it.”
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“Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.”
― The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
― The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
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Esperanto is an international language invented by Zamenhof a polish doctor to faciliate relations between peoples with different languages.
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