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"After several false starts, I am finally READING this, and loving it as much as I feared I would. Nearly unputdownable, and genuinely fascinating." — Jul 08, 2013 06:57PM
"After several false starts, I am finally READING this, and loving it as much as I feared I would. Nearly unputdownable, and genuinely fascinating." — Jul 08, 2013 06:57PM
“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”
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“Deserves it! I daresay he does. Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.”
― The Fellowship of the Ring
― The Fellowship of the Ring
“The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried.”
― What's Wrong with the World
― What's Wrong with the World
“A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.”
― Mostly Harmless
― Mostly Harmless
“All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.”
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