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#1

“I pass with relief from the tossing sea of Cause and Theory to the firm ground of Result and Fact.”
― Winston Churchill, The Story of the Malakand Field Force

tags: causation, fact, relief, results, sea, theory

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#2

“Never laugh at live dragons.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

tags: dragons, wisdom

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#3

“Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

tags: fantasy

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#4

“What do you fear, lady?" [Aragorn] asked.
"A cage," [Éowyn] said. "To stay behind bars, until use and old age accept them, and all chance of doing great deeds is gone beyond recall or desire.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

tags: caged, fear, gender-roles

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#5

“Be realistic, demand the impossible!”
― Che Guevara

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#6

“Dattebayo! (Do you get what I am saying?!)”
― Kishimoto Masashi

tags: manga, naruto

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#7

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul

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#8

“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”
― Cicero

tags: books

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#9

“What an ugly beast is the ape, and how like us.”
― Cicero

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#10

“While there's life, there's hope.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: hope, life

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#11

“Let the die be cast! [Greek: Ἀνερρίφθω κύβος; contemporary Latin (mis)translation: Iacta alea est!]”
― Julius Caesar

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#12

“The greatest enemy will hide in the last place you would ever look.”
― Julius Caesar

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#13

“What a blessing it is to love books.”
― Elizabeth von Arnim, The Solitary Summer

tags: book-lovers, reading

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#14

“Love all, trust a few,
Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy
Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend
Under thy own life's key: be check'd for silence,
But never tax'd for speech.”
― William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well

tags: do-wrong, love, trust, wrong

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#15

“In the very depths of Hell, do not demons love one another?”
― Anne Rice

tags: love-hell

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#16

“Yes, man is mortal, but that would be only half the trouble. The worst of it is that he's sometimes unexpectedly mortal—there's the trick!”
― Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

tags: mortality

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#17

“You are not Dostoevsky,' said the woman...
'You never can tell...' he answered.
'Dostoevsky is dead,' the woman said, a bit uncertainly.
'I protest!' he said with heat, 'Dostoevsky is immortal!”
― Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

tags: doubt

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#18

“The darkness that had come in from the Mediterranean covered the city so detested by the procurator...”
― Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

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#19

“I suppose that in no educational institution can one become an educated person.”
― Mikhail Bulgakov, The Life of Monsieur de Molière

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#20

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

tags: read, readers, reading, reading-books

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