"A book should be an axe to chop……" — J M Coetzee

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• If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business,… — Lord Byron
• . . . The books we need are the kind that act upon us like a misfortune, that make us… — Franz Kafka
• If we are to define science, ... it does not consist so much in knowing, nor even in "organized knowledge,"… — Charles Sanders Peirce
• Science affects the average man and woman in two ways already. He or she benefits by its application driving a… — John B. S. Haldane
• Sleep! I feel the need of it, as never I thought any dwarf could , riding is tiring work. Yet… — J.R.R. Tolkien
• And where the offense is, let the great axe fall. — William Shakespeare
• Come to the sunset tree! The day is past and gone; The woodman's axe lies free, And the reaper's work… — John Milton
• When I talk to anyone or read the writings of anyone who has any axe to grind, I feel that… — George Orwell
• Crime is redeemed by remorse, but not by a blow of the axe or slipknot. Blood has to be washed… — Victor Hugo
• You may loan your last dollar to a friend; but never loan him your axe, unless you are certain that… — Horace Kephart
• Last week my tie caught on fire, some guy tried to put it out with an axe. — Rodney Dangerfield
• Every moment of mindfulness means the gradual destruction of latent defilements. It is somewhat like cutting away a piece of… — Unknown Author

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