1) “What we find in books is like the fire in our hearths. We fetch it from our neighbors, we kindle it at home, we communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.”
-Voltaire
2) "[Language] becomes ugly and inaccurate because our thoughts are foolish, but the slovenliness of our language makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts. The point is that the process is reversible."
-George Orwell
3) “His philosophy was a mixture of three famous schools — the Cynics, the Stoics and the Epicureans — and summed up all three of them in his famous phrase, ‘You can't trust any bugger further than you can throw him, and there's nothing you can do about it, so let's have a drink.’ “
-Terry Pratchett
4) “The future has arrived; it's just not evenly distributed."
-William Gibson
5) “I once had a boss who said, 'You can't have your cake and eat it, so you have to step up to the plate and face the music.' It was in that moment I knew I had to resign before somebody got badly hurt by a pencil."
-BBC News Magazine
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