“If there was anything that depressed him more than his own cynicism, it was that quite often it still wasn’t as cynical as real life.”

― Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!

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“Those born to wealth, and who have the means of gratifying every wish . . . know not what is the real happiness of life, just as those who have been tossed on the stormy waters of the ocean on a few frail planks can alone realize the blessings of...”

― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

“Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man’s original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man under Socialism

“I’ve said many times that when a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact.”

― Warren Buffett, The Essays of Warren Buffett

“But I believe in true love, you know? I don’t believe that everybody gets to keep their eyes or not get sick or whatever, but everybody should have true love, and it should last at least as long as your life does.”

― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“The great advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science or literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government. Columbus did not set out to seek a new route to China in response to a...”

― Milton Friedman, Capitalism and Freedom

“I started my life with a single absolute: that the world was mine to shape in the image of my highest values and never to be given up to a lesser standard, no matter how long or hard the struggle”

― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

“Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can.”

― Yann Martel, Life of Pi

“Shalt thou give law to God? shalt thou dispute with him the points of liberty, who made thee what thou art, and formed the Powers of Heaven such as he pleased, and circumscribed their being?”

― John Milton, Paradise Lost

“There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise.”

― Jack London, The Call of the Wild

“I may hope, therefore, that my chance of escaping serious errors is as good as that of anyone else, who might have been persuaded to undertake the somewhat perilous enterprise in which I find myself engaged.”

― Thomas Henry Huxley, The Advance of Science in the Last Half-Century

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