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Hermann Hesse _ Narcissus and Goldmund
I am superior to you only in one point: I'm awake, whereas you are only half awake, or completely asleep sometimes. I call a man awake who knows in his conscious reason his innermost unreasonable force, drives, and weaknesses and knows how to deal with them.
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Frank Herbert _ Dune
What was it St. Augustine said? "The mind commands the body and it obeys. The mind orders itself and meets resistance.
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Geraldine Brooks _ The Secret Chord
In the heir's world, where everything was available, the unattainable had a wild allure.
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Geraldine Brooks _ The Secret Chord
He is able to put aside personal feelings and see the broad strokes. Experience counts in these things.
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Rebecca Goldstein _ Plato at the Googleplex: Why
Paraphrasing Plato's Republic: "Only people who have allowed themselves to be reformed by reality have it in themselves to reform their polis for the better."
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Barbara W. Tuchman _ The Proud Tower: A Portrait of
I command, or I keep quiet." Napoleon
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Barbara W. Tuchman _ The Proud Tower: A Portrait of
The overpowering unimportance of this MAKES ME SPEECHLESS. – Speaker of the House of Representatives Thomas Reed
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Barbara W. Tuchman _ The March of Folly: From Troy
Everything one has a right to do is not best to be done." Benjamin Franklin
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Barbara Taylor Bradford _ Being Elizabeth
Mary never made it to the board meeting. Cunning Elizabeth simply arranged for her cousin's tennis instructor to "delay" her for an hour or two. The man was evidently a superb athlete, though it was entirely Mary's fault that she fell asleep afterwards. Elizabeth took control of the company that very afternoon, by a vote of six to one, while a sated Mary slept. And the silly girl never knew what hit her.
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