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Undervaluing someone’s book is like trampling the brain of a wise person.

— Yolande Mukagasana

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Nothing is more destructive than never being satisfied with who you are and what you have.

There will be no humanity without forgiveness, there will be no forgiveness without justice, and there will be no justice without humanity.

When writing, let your words come from the heart.

As keepers of memory, we cannot accept the distortion of Rwanda’s history which include the genocide.

The genocide perpetrated against Tutsi is the history of Rwandans, it is the history of humanity.

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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

Francis Bacon Meditationes sacræ (1597)

It is not in the books of the Philosophers, but in the religious symbolism of the Ancients, that we must look for the footprints of Science, and re-discover the Mysteries of Knowledge.

Albert Pike Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871)

There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.

Ray Bradbury Fahrenheit 451 (1953)

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

Logan Pearsall Smith Afterthoughts (1931)

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