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“’You can never be overdressed or overeducated,’ Oscar Wilde,”
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education,’ Mark Twain,”
“Some books are so alive that they never leave you. They only change you.”
“Circumstances define the man. No one wakes up and decides to be great. It’s the events he’s thrown into that determine if he is truly great. Survive or not is to be great or not.”
“An ebook is like having a photo of a dead loved one. It’s convenient to look at and it will stir the mind, but it doesn’t breathe.”
philosopher Santayana’s warning, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”
“Only the dead have seen the end of war.”
A corrupt leader needs to control what the people think so they don’t revolt. There are three ways to do that: don’t allow them to learn anything that counters the official line, bombard them with propaganda disguised as news, and finally, give them a distraction, usually an enemy.”
“Cicero once said, ‘If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.’
an illusion of peace is as close as we’ll ever get to real peace, so long as money is involved.”
you want to be endeared to the masses, go after the wealthy.”
“Novels hold more contentious ideas and contemplate far more truth than nonfiction,”
