Read what you love until you love to read.
– from The Almanack of Naval Ravikant book by Eric Jorgenson
What the Fed and paper money …
What the Fed and paper money have done for Congress is lead legislators to believe that there are no limits on what they can spend, on what they can propose, and what they can accomplish. They really do behave like college students on spring break who are using their parents’ credit cards with no limit. They don’t think about the money. They don’t think about who or what is paying the bills. The ability to do what they want is just taken for granted.
– from End the Fed book by Ron Paul
Those who truly seek wisdom are …
Those who truly seek wisdom are those who will acknowledge the virtue in their adversaries and who will learn from those who disabuse them of error.
– from The Way of Kings book by Brandon Sanderson
Young folks always think old folks …
Young folks always think old folks worry too much, and old folks always think young folks don’t worry enough.
– from The Searcher book by Tana French
The subject of woman, you see …
The subject of woman, you see, will always be completely new, however much you study it.
– from Anna Karenina book by Leo Tolstoy
It’s a strange thing, becoming an …
It’s a strange thing, becoming an orphan at sixteen. To lose your family long before you’ve had time to create your own to replace it. It’s a very specific sort of loneliness.
– from A Man Called Ove book by Fredrik Backman
I do my best thinking when …
I do my best thinking when I’m in motion.
– from Mexican Gothic book by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Something like 90 percent of humans …
Something like 90 percent of humans ingest caffeine regularly, making it the most widely used psychoactive drug in the world, and the only one we routinely give to children (commonly in the form of soda). Few of us even think of it as a drug, much less our daily use of it as an addiction. It’s so pervasive that it’s easy to overlook the fact that to be caffeinated is not baseline consciousness but, in fact, an altered state. It just happens to be a state that virtually all of us share, rendering it invisible.
– from This Is Your Mind on Plants book by Michael Pollan
Taxation is just a sophisticated way …
Taxation is just a sophisticated way of demanding money with menaces.
– from Night Watch book by Terry Pratchett
Look at them, the bugs. Humans …
Look at them, the bugs. Humans have used everything in their power to extinguish them: every kind of poison, aerial sprays, introducing and cultivating their natural predators, searching for and destroying their eggs, using genetic modification to sterilize them, burning with fire, drowning with water. Every family has bug spray, every desk has a flyswatter under it … this long war has been going on for the entire history of human civilization. But the outcome is still in doubt. The bugs have not been eliminated. They still proudly live between the heavens and the earth, and their numbers have not diminished from the time before the appearance of the humans.
– from The Three-Body Problem book by Cixin Liu