The most persistent sound which reverberates through man's history is the beating of war drums.
From Arthur Koestler
A publisher who writes is like a cow in a milk bar.
Politics can be relatively fair in the breathing spaces of history; at its critical turning points there is no other rule possible than the old one, that the end justifies the means.
The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know.
One may not regard the world as a sort of metaphysical brothel for emotions.
The progress of science is strewn, like an ancient desert trail, with the bleached skeleton of discarded theories which once seemed to possess eternal life.
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