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Book cover for Victory City
“Yes?” Bukka urged him on. “What’s in the second place?” “In the second place,” Hukka said slowly, “we have to decide which one of the two of us is going to be king first, and who will be in the second place.” “Well,” Bukka said, hopefully, ...more
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Frank Patrick Herbert
“They’re not mad. They’re trained to believe, not to know. Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous.”
Frank Herbert, Dune Messiah

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
“He believed in good omens and positive thoughts and happy endings to films, a trouble-free belief, because he had not considered them deeply before choosing to believe; he just simply believed.”
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah

Steven Pinker
“The penultimate chapter will lay out how some of today’s florid outbursts of irrationality may be understood as the rational pursuit of goals other than an objective understanding of the world.”
Steven Pinker, Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters

Milan Kundera
“Perhaps the reason we are unable to love is that we yearn to be loved, that is, we demand something (love) from our partner instead of delivering ourselves up to him demand-free and asking for nothing but his company.”
Milan Kundera
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Milan Kundera
“Dogs do not have many advantages over people, but one of them is extremely important: euthanasia is not forbidden by law in their case; animals have the right to a merciful death.”
Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

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