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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is hilarious, short, and there’s a lot to be learned. Did you know that humans are only the third most intelligent species on Earth? Dolphins are more intelligent than human beings. The most intelligent creatures,
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""How many roads must a man walk down?" Yay, there's Bob Dylan!" — Mar 20, 2016 10:16AM
""How many roads must a man walk down?" Yay, there's Bob Dylan!" — Mar 20, 2016 10:16AM
“Not all those who wander are lost.”
― The Fellowship of the Ring
― The Fellowship of the Ring
“In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since.
"Whenever you feel like criticizing any one," he told me, "just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.”
― The Great Gatsby
"Whenever you feel like criticizing any one," he told me, "just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.”
― The Great Gatsby
“Es gibt eine Art von Zauberei, die man mühsam erlernen muß: Das ist die, wie sie im Koraktor steht, Zeichen für Zeichen und Formel um Formel. Und dann gibt es eine, die wächst einem aus der Tiefe des Herzens zu: aus der Sorge um jemanden, den man lieb hat. Ich weiß, daß das schwer zu begreifen ist - aber du solltest darauf vertrauen, Krabat.”
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“We never know we go,—when we are going
We jest and shut the door;
Fate following behind us bolts it,
And we accost no more.”
― The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
We jest and shut the door;
Fate following behind us bolts it,
And we accost no more.”
― The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
“Tom said to himself that it was not such a hollow world, after all. He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it -- namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain.”
― The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
― The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
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