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“Over the course of his wartime service, Lawrence was awarded a number of medals and ribbons, but with his profound disdain for such things, he either threw them away or never bothered to collect them. He made an exception in the case of the Croix de Guerre; after the war, according to his brother, he found amusement in placing the medal around the neck of a friend’s dog and parading it through the streets of Oxford.”
― Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly, and the Making of the Modern Middle East
― Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly, and the Making of the Modern Middle East
“It was impossible to expect a moral awakening from humankind itself, just like it was impossible to expect humans to lift off the earth by pulling up on their own hair. To achieve moral awakening required a force outside the human race.”
― The Three-Body Problem
― The Three-Body Problem
“Your lack of fear is based on your ignorance.”
― The Three-Body Problem
― The Three-Body Problem
“In China, any idea that dared to take flight would only crash back to the ground. The gravity of reality is too strong.”
― The Three-Body Problem
― The Three-Body Problem
“I urge you to engrave this on the template of your memories: there are thousands of diseases in this world, but Medical Science only has an empirical cure for twenty-six of them. The rest is … guesswork.”
― Doctors
― Doctors
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