Adam’s first night on earth? When he lays down to sleep? He thinks it is all over, right? He doesn’t know what sleep is. His eyes are closing and he thinks he is leaving this world, right?
‘Only he isn’t. He wakes up the next morning and he has a fresh new world to work with, but he has something else, too. He has his yesterday.’
‘The way I see it, that’s what we’re getting here soldier. That’s what heaven is. You get to make sense of your yesterdays’
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If I wished a boy to know something about the arts and sciences, for instance, I would not pursue the common course, which is merely to send him into the neigh-borhood of some professor, where any thing is pro-fessed and practised but the art of life;—to survey the world through a telescope or a microscope, and never with his natural eye; to study chemistry, and not learn how his bread is made, or mechanics, and not learn how it is earned; to discover new satellites to Neptune, and not detect the motes in his eyes, or to what vagabond he is a satellite himself; or to be devoured by the monsters that swarm all around him, while contemplating the monsters in a drop of vine-gar.
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As his new Hand, he called upon Ser Otto Hightower, younger brother to Lord Hightower of Oldtown.
If there is not a new man, how can the new clothes be made to fit?
‘But that’s the beauty of learning a new language. It should feel like an enormous undertaking. It ought to intimidate you. It makes you appreciate the complexity of the ones you know already.’
“Kâbil'le New York arasındaki farkların çoğuna İstanbul'un iki semti arasında kolayca tesadüf edilir..."
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