It is crazy to want what is impossible. And impossible for the wicked not to do so. Book V
Take a book, the poorest one written, but read it with the passion that it is the only book you will read-ultimately you will read everything out of it, that is, as much as there was in yourself, and you could never get more out of reading, even if you read the best of books. Stages on Life's Way
"He is, or has been, in many ways a great man. But for this very reason he is odd. It is only petty men who seem normal." The Name of The Rose
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
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