“Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.”

― Samuel Butler, The Note-Books of Samuel Butler

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“Yet if there really is a complete unified theory, it would also presumably determine our actions. And so the theory itself would determine the outcome of our search for it! And why should it determine that we come to the right conclusions from...”

― Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time

“Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.”

― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

“I should like to know what well-constituted mind, merely because it is transitory, dislikes roast beef?”

― William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair

“Not long ago, an English writer telephoned me from London, asking questions. One was, 'What's your alma mater?' I told him, 'Books.'”

― Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

“I live in the crowds of jollity, not so much to enjoy company as to shun myself, and am only loud and merry to conceal my sadness.”

― Samuel Johnson, The History of Rasselas

“To err is common To all men, but the man who having erred Hugs not his errors, but repents and seeks The cure, is not a wastrel nor unwise.”

― Sophocles, Antigone

“It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.”

― Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., The Poet at the Breakfast-Table

“The singing of a man cast away upon a desolate island might be as appropriately considered as evidence of contentment and happiness, as the singing of a slave; the songs of the one and of the other are prompted by the same emotion.”

― Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

“Life is a series of pulls back and forth. You want to do one thing, but you are bound to do something else.”

― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie

“Don’t wait for the Last Judgment. It takes place every day.”

― Albert Camus, The Fall

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