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Many readers simply can't stomach fantasy. They immediately picture elves with broadswords or mighty-thewed barbarians with battle axes, seeking the bejeweled Coronet…
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Throughout history the exemplary teacher has never been just an instructor in a subject; he is nearly always its living advertisement.
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I have now and again tried to imagine the perfect environment, the ideal conditions for reading: A worn leather armchair on a…
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Order and surprise: these are two intertwined elements that make for any great library or collection.
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Science fiction is, after all, the art of extrapolation.
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Once we know the plot and its surprises, we can appreciate a book's artistry without the usual confusion and sap flow of…
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In Madame Bovary Flaubert never allows anything to go on too long; he can suggest years of boredom in a paragraph, capture…
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Make sure your message is clear, yet that you are faithful to its complexity.
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In PLATO AT THE GOOGLEPLEX, Rebecca Newberger Goldstein set out to showcase, in sometimes startling ways, the continuing relevance of a classic…
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The world is a library of strange and wonderful books, and sometimes we just need to go prowling through the stacks.
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It [the scientific revolution] outshines everything since the rise of Christianity and reduces the Renaissance and Reformation to the rank of mere…
— Herbert Butterfield
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I have now and again tried to imagine the perfect environment, the ideal conditions for reading: A worn leather armchair on a…
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What, then, is light according to the electromagnetic theory? It consists of alternate and opposite rapidly recurring transverse magnetic disturbances, accompanied with…
— James Clerk Maxwell
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The vast material displacements the machine has made in our physical environment are perhaps in the long run less important than its…
— Lewis Mumford
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Muses are fickle, and many a writer, peering into the voice, has escaped paralysis by ascribing the creative responsibility to a talisman:…
— Anne Fadiman
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Many...have learned that the magnitude of lives is not as to their external displacements, but as to their subjective experiences. The impressionable…
— Thomas Hardy
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Yet if there's no reason to live without a child, how could there be with one? To answer one life with a…
— Lionel Shriver
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The more we heat up the planet, the more it costs all of us, not just in money, but in colossal famines,…
— Rebecca Solnit
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