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A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion.


Umberto Eco


#also #book #books #clumsy #creature

Whenever you deal with science fiction you are setting up a world of rules. I think you work hard to establish the rules. And you also have to work even harder to maintain those rules, and within that find excitement and unpredictability and all that stuff.


Joel Edgerton


#deal #establish #even #excitement #fiction

Furthermore, the study of the present surroundings is insufficient: the history of the people, the influence of the regions through which it has passed on its migrations, and the people with whom it came into contact, must be considered.


Franz Boas


#considered #contact #furthermore #history #influence

While farmers generally allow one rooster for ten hens, ten men are scarcely sufficient to service one woman.


Giovanni Boccaccio


#farmers #generally #hens #men #rooster

It's true that I suffered a lot, especially when I was younger.


Andrea Bocelli


#i #lot #suffered #true #younger

It is important for Americans to recognize that, despite all of the fancy gimmicks and perceived power of modern medicine, the largest explosion of preventable, chronic diseases ever in the history of mankind has occurred as a direct result of modern medicine and scientific reductionism. Modern medicine is not an antidote for the incredible harms caused by the modern food industry, but it is an effective distraction.


Charles C. Harpe


#diabetes #healthcare-reform-in-the-us #heart-disease #manufactured-food #metabolic-syndrome

We can arrange better expectations and better circumstances beginning with the fact that we need not be who we are now; we can be better.


Charles C. Harpe


#diabetes #heart-disease #manufactured-food #naturvore #whole-foods

Often, I went in love with some friends in school. And, no, I suffered. Only later, things went better.


Andrea Bocelli


#friends #i #later #love #often

All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.


Bodhidharma


#depend #experience #joy #suffering

Being rewarded for anything other than the quality of their work is the fastest way to screw-up a writer-and it isn't only new ones who suffer from that.


Greg Egan


#being #fastest #new #ones #only






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