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Leo Tolstoy
“was the condition of the first man’s blessedness before his fall. The love of idleness remained the same in fallen man, but the curse still weighs on man, and not only because we must win our bread in the sweat of our face,1 but because our moral qualities are such that we are unable to be idle and at peace. A secret voice tells us that we should feel guilty for being idle. If man could find a condition in which, while idle, he felt that he was being useful and was fulfilling his duty, he would have found one side of primordial blessedness.”
Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

Oscar Wilde
“Society--civilized society, at least--is never very ready to believe anything to the detriment of those who are both rich and fascinating”
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

Philip Ball
“The Yirkalla aborigines of Arnhem Land in Australia hear sacred song words in the babbling of babies. To them, songs are never composed but only discovered: all songs exist already.”
Philip Ball, The Music Instinct: How Music Works and Why We Can't Do Without It

Leo Tolstoy
“When an apple ripens and falls—what makes it fall? Is it that it is attracted to the ground, is it that the stem withers, is it that the sun has dried it up, that it has grown heavier, that the wind shakes it, that the boy standing underneath wants to eat it?”
Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

“Or we could buy the French Barracuda design with its nuclear power plant rather than go to the trouble and risk of developing a conventionally powered version.”
Hugh White, How to Defend Australia

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