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I also wonder about that stale mind. Who is more likely to end up with a brain like a piece of day-old toast—the single man who can spend his weekends thinking and reading, attending professional conferences, and conversing with colleagues
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“Summer friends will melt away like summer snows, but winter friends are friends forever.”
― A Dance with Dragons
― A Dance with Dragons
“Every man’s island, Jean Louise, every man’s watchman, is his conscience. There is no such thing as a collective conscious.”
― Go Set a Watchman
― Go Set a Watchman
“How do you cause people to believe in an imagined order such as Christianity, democracy or capitalism? First, you never admit that the order is imagined.”
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
“I'll belong to libraries wherever I go. Maybe eventually I'll belong to libraries on other planets.”
― Among Others
― Among Others
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