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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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“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
“Words are wind, and the wind that blows exiles across the narrow sea seldom blows them back. That”
― A Dance With Dragons: Part 2 After The Feast
― A Dance With Dragons: Part 2 After The Feast
“What's the point of having a voice if you're gonna be silent in those moments you shouldn't be?”
― The Hate U Give
― The Hate U Give
“Summer friends will melt away like summer snows, but winter friends are friends forever.”
― A Dance with Dragons
― A Dance with Dragons
“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
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