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"There are few things better than losing yourself in a book. And if you're lucky enough to have that adventure continue in a series, it's like chocolate ganache on the icing on the cake."

"I know that I am a small, weak man, but I have amassed a large library; I dream of dangerous places."

"There is a road which leads to all roads. The name of that road is adventure!"
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"The cultivation of sensibility on purely personal lines may, in fact, be the very worst training for a world where only the corporate and the cooperative will matter."

"For three hundred years we have had our focus on the individual. We have distinguished him from the objective world as the Middle Ages did not think of doing. We have given him the world and the universe as a playground for exploration and discovery."

"The very effect of the education they were given... was to make men think; and, thinking, they became less and less satisfied with the miserable pays they received."

"Political conflicts distort and disturb a people's sense of distinction between matters of importance and matters of urgency. What is vital is disguised by what is merely a matter of well being."

"My view... would be that we are entering upon a new and interim society which is neither capitalist nor socialist, but in which we can achieve central planning without loss of individual initiative, by the mere process of absorbing initiative in the function of planning."

"The oblique paradox of propaganda is that the lie in the throat becomes, by repetition, the truth in the heart."

"In fact, the individual outlook becomes less and less valuable and more and more harmful unless it is transmitted into the corporate outlook."

"Such manifestations I account as representing the creative leadership of the new forces of thought and appreciation which attend changes in technological pattern and therefore of the pattern of human relationships in society."

"My personal view is that such total planning by the state is an absolute good and not simply a relative good... I do not myself think of the attitude I take as deriving from Marx - though this undoubtedly will be suggested - but from Fichte and Hegel."

"And, consequently, the art of propaganda or public information becomes one of the most powerful forms of directive statesmanship."
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