“Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.”
— Barbara Tuchman
Author: Barbara Tuchman
Category: history
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“Many of our own people here in this country do not ask about computers, telephones and television sets. They ask – when will we get a road to our village.”
“If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for the Creator, there is no poverty.”
— Rainer Maria Rilke
Author: Rainer Maria Rilke
Category: life
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“Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that boredom and cruelty are great preoccupations in our time.”
— Renata Adler
Author: Renata Adler
Category: great
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