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OperatingSystem OperatingSystem said: " This is a good introduction to physics and its many sub-topics, but does not explore any of them too deeply. For an intro, it's great!

The only problem I've had with this book is with some of the practice problems — there were times when it was diffic
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Susanna Clarke
“It is these black clothes," said Strange. "I am like a leftover piece of funeral, condemned to walk about the Town, frightening people into thinking of their own mortality.”
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Susanna Clarke
“He understood for the first time that the world is not dumb at all, but merely waiting for someone to speak to it in a language it understands.”
Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

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“But when the fairy sang the whole world listened to him. Stephen felt clouds pause in their passing; he felt sleeping hills shift and murmur; he felt cold mists dance. He understood for the first time that the world is not dumb at all, but merely waiting for someone to speak to it in a language it understands. In the fairy’s song the earth recognized the names by which it called itself.”
Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

Susanna Clarke
“Such nonsense!" declared Dr Greysteel. "Whoever heard of cats doing anything useful!"
"Except for staring at one in a supercilious manner," said Strange. "That has a sort of moral usefulness, I suppose, in making one feel uncomfortable and encouraging sober reflection upon one's imperfections.”
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“Houses, like people, are apt to become rather eccentric if left too much on their own; this house was the architectural equivalent of an old gentleman in a worn dressing-gown and torn slippers, who got up and went to bed at odd times of day, and who kept up a continual conversation with friends no one else could see.”
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