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"A room without books is like a body without a soul."
— Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: books, soul
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"So many books, so little time."
— Frank Zappa

tags: books, humor
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"The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid."
— Jane Austen (Northanger Abbey)

tags: books, classic, humor
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"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by."
— Douglas Adams

tags: deadlines, humor, work
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"I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal."
— Jane Austen

tags: friends, humor, people
2,191 people liked it

"What are men to rocks and mountains?"
— Jane Austen (Pride and Prejudice)

285 people liked it

"I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be."
— Douglas Adams

tags: life
3,642 people liked it

"The Guide says that there is an art to flying,” said Ford, “or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss."
— Douglas Adams

tags: flight, flying, hg2g, humor
1,186 people liked it

"Would it save you a lot of time if I just gave up and went mad now?"
— Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)

tags: british, commentary, fiction, humor, science, social, thumb, towel
411 people liked it

"Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?"
— Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)

tags: skeptic
197 people liked it

"Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own set of laws."
— Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)

tags: fiction, humor, novelist, science
171 people liked it

"It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes."
— Douglas Adams

145 people liked it

"I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn to the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain."
— Frank Herbert (Dune)

tags: motivational, scifi
371 people liked it

"Truth suffers from too much analysis."
— Frank Herbert (Dune Messiah)

26 people liked it

"Empires do not suffer emptiness of purpose at the time of their creation. It is when they have become established that aims are lost and replaced by vague ritual."
— Frank Herbert (Dune Messiah)

tags: government, nations, politics
17 people liked it

"Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic"
— Frank Herbert (Dune)

tags: dune, herbert, order, reality, understanding
15 people liked it

"Governments, if they endure, always tend increasingly toward aristocratic forms. No government in history has been known to evade this pattern. And as the aristocracy develops, government tends more and more to act exclusively in the interests of the ruling class -- whether that class be hereditary royalty, oligarchs of financial empires, or entrenched bureaucracy."
— Frank Herbert (Children of Dune)

tags: government, philosophy
11 people liked it

"What do you despise? By this are you truly known."
— Frank Herbert

19 people liked it

"There is no escape - we pay for the violence of our ancestors"
— Frank Herbert

14 people liked it

"There exists no separation between gods and men; one blends softly casual into the other. - Proverbs of Muad'dib"
— Frank Herbert

4 people liked it

"There is probably no more terrible instant of enlightenment than the one in which you discover your father is a man with human flesh."
— Frank Herbert

2 people liked it

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