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“We rarely consider the Renaissance in terms of its technological advances but the era’s engineers made much more of a difference to the lives of ordinary people than the great painters or humanist thinkers. Homes were now built with fireplaces and glazed windows; cities with water supplies. New pump designs allowed mines to be sunk, and salt, coal and metal ores to be extracted; new mill designs allowed water and wind power to be harnessed to drain marshes, press olives, or saw planks; new industries – not least, paper manufacture – spread across the continent.”
― Roland Allen, The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper

“You’re right,” Martin said, before realizing that could easily come across as the opposite of what he meant. (A devious characteristic of language, had Wittgenstein written about that?)”
― Lydia Sandgren, Samlede værker

“Unable to express his sense of shock and abhorrence openly, let alone to alter the course of events, he had to force his emotional response inwards where it grew into a gnawing and profound sense of shame.”
― Nicholas Stargardt, The German War: A Nation Under Arms

“Nothing erases the past. There is repentance, there is atonement, and there is forgiveness. That is all, but that is enough.”
― Ted Chiang, The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate