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“Each of us has been designed for one of two immortal functions, as either a storyteller or as a cross-legged listener to tales of wonder, love, and daring. When we cease to tell or listen, then we no longer exist as a people.”
― Bryce Courtenay

“We are breeding creatures incapable of surviving in any place other than the most artificial settings. We have focused the awesome power of modern genetic knowledge to bring into being animals that suffer more.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Eating Animals

“It is an iron rule of history that what looks inevitable in hindsight was far from obvious at the time.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“I have discovered that of all cursed places under the sun, where the hungriest soul can hardly pick up a few grains of knowledge, a girls' boarding-school is the worst. They are called finishing schools, and the name tells accurately what they are. They finish everything but imbecility and weakness, and that they cultivate.”
― Olive Schreiner, The Story of an African Farm