“No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.”

― Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations

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“As long as we don’t die, this is gonna be one hell of a story.”

― John Green, Paper Towns

“nobody has ever figured out the cause of government stupidity—and until they do (and find the cure), all ideal plans will fall into quicksand.”

― Richard Feynman, What Do You Care What Other People Think?

“She said she knew we were safe with you, and always would be, because once, when she asked you to, you'd given up the thing you most wanted.”

― Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

“Sometimes I feel so—I don’t know—lonely. The kind of helpless feeling when everything you’re used to has been ripped away. Like there’s no more gravity, and I’m left to drift in outer space with no idea where I’m going.”

― Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart

“Adventures are all very well in their place . . . but there's a lot to be said for regular meals and freedom from pain.”

― Neil Gaiman, Stardust

“He read the verses backwards but then they were not poetry.”

― James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

“And yet I have had the weakness, and have still the weakness, to wish you to know with what a sudden mastery you kindled me, heap of ashes that I am, into fire—a fire, however, inseparable in its nature from myself, quickening nothing, lighting...”

― Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

“The mindset which leaves no room for sincere concern for the environment is the same mindset which lacks concern for the inclusion of the most vulnerable members of society.”

― Pope Francis, Laudato si'

“Perhaps most people in the world aren't trying to be free, Kafka. They just think they are. It's all an illusion. If they really were set free, most people would be in a real bind. You'd better remember that. People actually prefer not being free.”

― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“I have heard that Glinda is a beautiful woman, who knows how to keep young in spite of the many years she has lived.”

― L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

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