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Quote by Georg C. Lichtenberg

“A sure sign of a good book is that you like it more the older you get.”

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German physicist, inventor, and writer, known for his research in electricity and magnetism. He proposed Lichtenberg's law in electricity and invented various scientific instruments. more

Book:The Complete Works of the Swami Vivekananda, Comprising All His Lectures, Addresses and Discourses Delivered in Europe, America and India: All His Writings in Prose and Poetry, Together with Translations of Those Written in Bengali and Sanskrit; Reports of His Interviews and His Replies to the Various Addresses of Welcome; His Sayings and Epistles,--private and Public--original and Translated; with an Index; Carefully Revised & Edited

Source: The Complete Works of the Swami Vivekananda, Comprising All His Lectures, Addresses and Discourses Delivered in Europe, America and India: All His Writings in Prose and Poetry, Together with Translations of Those Written in Bengali and Sanskrit; Reports of His Interviews and His Replies to the Various Addresses of Welcome; His Sayings and Epistles,--private and Public--original and Translated; with an Index; Carefully Revised & Edited

“As long as one American is hungry... then we have unfinished business in this country.”

Long Country Hungry Unfinished Unfinished Business

Author:William Safire

“Nothing disturbs me more than the glorification of stupidity.”

Stupidity Glorification

Author:Carl Sagan

“Most men's conscience, habits, and opinions are borrowed from convention and gather continually comforting assurances from the same social consensus that originally suggested them.”

Men Social Opinion Habit Conscience Conventions Assurance Comforting Consensus Borrowed

Book:The Life of Reason: Human Understanding

Source: The Life of Reason: Human Understanding

“Apart from man, no being wonders at its own experience.”

Men Wonder