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One may say the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.

There is no greater harm than that of time wasted.

People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

If you are bitter, you are like a dry leaf that you can just squash, and you can get blown away by the wind. There…

I think that novels that leave out technology misrepresent life as badly as Victorians misrepresented life by leaving out sex.

It is impossible to experience one’s death objectively and still carry a tune.

If you don’t know where you are going, any road will get you there.

Smile, breathe and go slowly.

A single lamp may light hundreds of thousands of lamps without itself being diminished.

Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible.