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"epochal innovation spreading application of science to processes of production and social organization."

"Of course, Socialism is violently denounced by the capitalist press and by all the brood of subsidized contributors to magazine literature, but this only confirms the view that the advance of Socialis…"

"I was sorry to see the News of the World go down, I think it was a great campaigning newspaper. Who can forget the News of the World's high profile campaign against child sex offenders which led to Ne…"

"Suffice it to say that from the pure "gun" side of it, the Five-seveN is a fascinating design that deserves a place in modern gun collections, and which has written a fascinating and complex chapter i…"

"I am a man without many pleasures in life, a man whose few pleasures are small, but a man whose small pleasures are very important to him. One of them is eating. One reading. Another eating while read…"

"You are being dishonest if you are not writing about sex in your book. It is very natural and normal. Well, I have earned the name of 'dirty old man' but there is not much sex in my books. What I have…"

"If you say you believe in God, but you don’t really believe in God, then how you could you possibly be trying to fool God? Wouldn’t you have to believe there is a god if you’re going to try and deceiv…"

"Have you read all of them?"

"Archimedes' Book of Lemmas"

"There is in fact no contradiction at all between the statement of an exact bookkeeping balance ex post and the obvious inference that in a situation when saving is increasing without a corresponding i…"

"This has gone on far too long, this spreading of lies about me! None of it is true. NONE OF IT! I love my country. I have never done anything to hurt my country or the men and women who have fought an…"

"The book on Laura Bush" by Dennis B. Roddy, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette"

"Centro Stendhaliano di Milano Digital version of Stendhal's shoulder-notes on his own books."

"According to mainstream non-religious sources, a fool is one who too readily accepts improbable assertions from questionable sources on insufficient evidence. So it is no wonder that the Bible and the…"

"Frederick Buechner's books on Amazon"

"Annotated Bibliography for Henry Kissinger from the Alsos Digital Library for Nuclear Issues"

"Of course, there is drawing in art as there is style in literature. Style that is mannered, that strains after effect, is bad. No style is good except that which effaces itself in order to concentrate…"

"Please do not worry, I never read anything which you write."

"Daniel J. Boorstin, RIP: Historian, Critic, and American Man of Books, The New Atlantis, Spring 2004."

"Electronic facsimile-editions of the rare book collection at the Vienna Institute of Astronomy"