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Quote by Fyodor Dostoevsky

“If everything on earth were rational, nothing would happen.”

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A renowned Russian novelist and a pioneer of psychological novels. His works deeply reveal the complexity of human nature and the injustice of society, having a profound impact on literature worldwide. more

“If language naturally evolves to serve the needs of tiny rodents with tiny rodent brains, then what's unique about language isn't the brilliant humans who invented it to communicate high-level abstract thoughts. What's unique about language is that the creatures who develop it are highly vulnerable to being eaten.”

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Book:Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior

Source: Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior

“Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with it is a toy and an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, then it becomes a master, then it becomes a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster and fling him to the public.”

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Book:Winston Churchill, His Wit and Wisdom: Selections from His Works and Speeches

Source: Winston Churchill, His Wit and Wisdom: Selections from His Works and Speeches

“I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.”

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Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I should have written that down. - Dilbert”

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Author:Scott Adams

“And I add this part here, to hint to whoever shall read it, that whenever they come to a true Sense of things, they will find Deliverance from Sin a much greater Blessing than Deliverance from Affliction.”

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Book:The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe of York, Mariner with an Account of His Travels Round Three Parts of the Globe

Source: The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe of York, Mariner with an Account of His Travels Round Three Parts of the Globe

“The death of something living is the price of our own survival, and we pay it again and again. We have no choice. It is the one solemn promise every life on earth is born and bound to keep.”

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Author:Barbara Kingsolver

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