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Boots

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Boots’s Quotes

“Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace.”
― Robert J. Sawyer, Calculating God

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“The road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair, even though they both lead to the same destination.”
― Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Fall of Atlantis

tags: despair, hope

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“The story so far:
In the beginning the Universe was created.
This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”
― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

tags: humor, scifi

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“Go to heaven for the climate and hell for the company.”
― Benjamin Franklin Wade

tags: humor, misattributed-mark-twain, philosophy, theology

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“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
― Mark Twain

tags: aliteracy, attributed-no-source, literacy

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Boots’s Groups

The Sword and Laser — 21713 members — last activity 5 hours, 28 min ago
Online discussion forum for the Sword and Laser podcast and monthly book club pick. Subscribe to the audio podcast: http://itunes.apple.com/us/podca ...more

Science and Inquiry — 4458 members — last activity Dec 30, 2025 07:59PM
This Group explores scientific topics. We have an active monthly book club, as well as discussions on a variety of topics including science in the new ...more

The Ancient & Pre-Modern History Book Club — 89 members — last activity Oct 11, 2021 08:48PM
This is a group for books on history from the very ancient up to the early modern period. Yes, that is a wide and fairly amorphous period. We will ...more