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G.K. Chesterton
“Lying in bed would be an altogether supreme experience if one only had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.”
G.K. Chesterton, Tremendous Trifles

Chinua Achebe
“...when we are comfortable and inattentive, we run the risk of committing grave injustices absentmindedly.”
Chinua Achebe, The Education of a British-Protected Child: Essays

Baruch Spinoza
“I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.”
Baruch Spinoza

Neil Shubin
“My building was constructed in 1896, and the utilities reflect an odd design that has been jerry-rigged further with each renovation. If you want to understand the wiring and plumbing in my building, you have to understand its history, how it was renovated for each new generation of scientists. My head has a long history also, and that history explains complicated nerves like the trigeminal and the facial.”
Neil Shubin, Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body

Ivan Klíma
“To destroy is easier than to create, and that is why so many people are ready to demonstrate against what they reject. But what would they say if one asked them what they wanted instead?”
Ivan Klima, Love and Garbage

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