"Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them."
— Lemony Snicket (Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid)

"You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them."
— Ray Bradbury

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
— Arthur C. Clarke (Profiles of the Future: An Inquiry into the Limits of the Possible)

"As many know, the Chinese expression for "crisis" consists of two characters side by side. The first is the symbol for "danger," the second the symbol for "opportunity."
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— Al Gore (An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It)

"Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity.
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— Christopher Morley

"If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need."
— Marcus Tullius Cicero