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“I am tormented by temptations." "What kind? There is a cure for temptation." "What?" "Yielding to it.“”
Le Pere Goriot • Honore de Balzac“In the morning, when thou art sluggish at rousing thee, let this thought be present; “I am rising to a man’s work.””
Meditations • Marcus Aurelius“"Whenever they began to talk of the need to earn money, Gregor would always first let go of the door and then throw himself onto the cool, leather sofa next to it, as he became quite hot with shame and regret."”
Metamorphosis and Other Stories • Franz Kafka“Nuclear energy is incomparably greater than the molecular energy which we use today.... What is lacking is the match to set the bonfire alight.”
Never Give In! • Winston S Churchill“Despite being depicted in innumerable cartoons as apelike brutes living in caves, Neanderthals had brains slightly larger than our own. They were also the first humans to leave behind strong evidence of burying their dead and caring for their sick.”
Guns, Germs And Steel • Jared Diamond, Ph.D. (UCLA)