Ray Bradbury

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• Mysteries abound where most we seek for answers.

  “All flesh is one: what matter scores?” in When Elephants Last In The Dooryard Bloomed: Celebrations For Almost Any Day In The Year (1973)

  • Knowledge

• A book is a loaded gun in the house next door.

  Fahrenheit 451 (1953)

  • Reading

• God gives us dreadful gifts. The most dreadful of all is memory.

  The Wish (p. 172)

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• No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.

  John Donne1572–1631No Man Is an Island (1624), Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (1624), Meditation 17In context

• I came, I saw, I conquered.

  Julius Caesar100–44 BCInscription on the triumphal wagon reported in The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius, as translated by Robert Graves (1957).

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• The unexamined life is not worth living.

  Socrates470–399 BCThe Apology of Socrates (399 BC)

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