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Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent,

literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. Without
books, the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are engines
of change (as the poet said), windows on the world and lighthouses erected in the
sea of time. They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of
the mind. Books are humanity in print.

Nurses and doctors come and go, and family. It's like they're visiting a person at
his lonely outpost on the space station, miles above the earth. How do they get
there - just coming in through the door like that? In the brief moment between
infinite communion with the ceiling and the beginning of whatever conversation
they've come to strike up, it seems like the deepest mystery in the world.

The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the
other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to
any creatures that cannot do so.

The show follows a crime, usually adapted from current headlines, from two separate
vantage points. The first half of the show concentrates on the investigation of the
crime by the police, the second half follows the prosecution of the crime in court.
These are their stories.

Books are nice, aren't they? With just one sentence you can get lost in all sorts
of dreams. The way I think of it, literature allows the reader's consciousness to
deeply relish the author and be closer to him. And so, we freely walk around the
world of the story from the yarn-spinner's point of view. It's only when you
immerse yourself in the world of a book that you are able to forget just who you
are.

The reality of the other person is not in what he reveals to you, but in what he
cannot reveal to you. Therefore, if you would understand him, listen not to what he
says but rather to what he does not say.

In the long flow of time, living things know nothing of their ancestors, except for
the genes they've inherited. Only mankind has history. Having a history
differentiates mankind from all other living species. That's why I wanted to be a
historian.

If you have a painting in you, paint. If you have a song to sing, sing. Don’t judge
your creation. Just create it. Banish doubt and fear and step out of your own way
if you have to. Write if you’re a writer and invent if you’re an inventor. Do what
you were born to do. Only then will you know a remarkable life.

The current memoir craze has fostered the belief that confession is therapeutic,
that therapy is redemptive and that redemption equals art, and it has encouraged
the delusion that candor, daring and shamelessness are substitutes for craft, that
the exposed life is the same thing as an examined one.

We bereaved are not alone. We belong to the largest company in all the world - the
company of those who have known suffering. When it seems that our sorrow is too
great to be borne, let us think of the great family of the heavy hearted into which
our grief has given us entrance, and inevitably, we will feel about us their arms,
their sympathy, their understanding.

There are three stages in scientific discovery. First, people deny that it is true,
then they deny that it is important; finally, they credit the wrong person.
Life is like a game of chess. To win you have to make a move. Knowing which move to
make comes with insight and knowledge and by learning the lessons that are
accumulated along the way. We become each and every piece within the game called
Life.

We assume that a large brain, the use of tools, superior learning abilities and
complex social structures are huge advantages. It seems self-evident that these
have made humankind the most powerful animal on earth. But humans enjoyed all of
these advantages for a full 2 million years during which they remained weak and
marginal creatures. Thus humans who lived a million years ago, despite their big
brains and sharp stone tools, dwelt in constant fear of predators, rarely hunted
large game, and subsisted mainly by gathering plants, scooping up insects, stalking
small animals, and eating the carrion left behind by other more powerful
carnivores.