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“Politics matters, she said, because you don’t just implement other people’s decisions: you get to make them. That’s what democracy is about.”
― Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History

“We rarely consider the Renaissance in terms of its technological advances but the era’s engineers made much more of a difference to the lives of ordinary people than the great painters or humanist thinkers. Homes were now built with fireplaces and glazed windows; cities with water supplies. New pump designs allowed mines to be sunk, and salt, coal and metal ores to be extracted; new mill designs allowed water and wind power to be harnessed to drain marshes, press olives, or saw planks; new industries – not least, paper manufacture – spread across the continent.”
― Roland Allen, The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper

“I will be missed after my death, but I will miss nothing.”
― Henry Marsh, And Finally: Matters of Life and Death

“Nothing erases the past. There is repentance, there is atonement, and there is forgiveness. That is all, but that is enough.”
― Ted Chiang, The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate