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“What does the world look like? It depends on who's looking. And the wonderful thing is, it takes more than one set of eyes to get a full picture.”
― Who's Looking?: How Animals See the World
― Who's Looking?: How Animals See the World
“Are there no Moravians in the Moon, that not a missionary has yet visited this poor pagan planet of ours to civilize civilization and Christianize Christendom?”
― White-Jacket or The World in a Man-of-War
― White-Jacket or The World in a Man-of-War
“You try to understand one other person, and you learn to love. You try to understand many people, and you become wise.
“And if you try to understand everybody?”
“Then you become a poet, of course.”
― The Bad Muslim Discount
“And if you try to understand everybody?”
“Then you become a poet, of course.”
― The Bad Muslim Discount
“It is not unlikely that they [goblins] invented some of the machines that have since troubled the world, especially the ingenious devices for killing large numbers of people at once, for wheels and engines explosions always delighted them, and also not working with their own hands more than they could help; but in those days and those wild parts they had not advanced (as it is called) so far.”
― The Hobbit
― The Hobbit
“Reading on a computer screen gives you no sense of time or investment. The page always looks the same, and everything is always in the same exact spot. When reading the book, no matter how large or small it is, a tension builds, concurrent with your progress through its pages. I get a nervous excitement as I see the number of pages that remain to be read draining inexorably from the right to the left.”
― Reading the OED: One Man, One Year, 21,730 Pages
― Reading the OED: One Man, One Year, 21,730 Pages
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