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"Yeah, back on reading half-finished books. Started reading this one while I was studying physics for a while.
It's a joy to read!" — Feb 26, 2016 07:30PM
"Yeah, back on reading half-finished books. Started reading this one while I was studying physics for a while.
It's a joy to read!" — Feb 26, 2016 07:30PM
“And the great owners, who must lose their land in an upheaval, the great owners with access to history, with eyes to read history and to know the great fact: when property accumulates in too few hands it is taken away. And that companion fact: when a majority of the people are hungry and cold they will take by force what they need. And the little screaming fact that sounds through all history: repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed.”
― The Grapes of Wrath
― The Grapes of Wrath
“Individuals who have received largely monocultural socialization normally have access only to their own cultural worldview, so they are unable to view the world in a way that would generate a different experience.”
― Basic Concepts of Intercultural Communication: Paradigms, Principles, and Practices
― Basic Concepts of Intercultural Communication: Paradigms, Principles, and Practices
“Swimming instruction, which in time became swimming practice, was gruelling, but there was the deep pleasure of doing a stroke with increasing ease and speed, over and over, till hypnosis practically, the water turning from molten lead to liquid light.”
― Life of Pi
― Life of Pi
“Why did millions of people kill one another when it has been known since the world began that it is physically and morally bad to do so? Because it was such an inevitable necessity that in doing it men fulfilled the elemental zoological law which bees fulfill when they kill one another in autumn, and which causes male animals to destroy one another. One can give no other reply to that terrible question.”
― War and Peace
― War and Peace
“We weren’t cruel, we were ignorant, foolish. Children are ignorant and foolish. But they learn. If they are given a chance to learn.”
― The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination
― The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination
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