“I wanted to know, not for the love of knowledge but as a defence against the world's contempt for the ignorant.”

― Charlie Chaplin, My Autobiography

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“The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.”

― Thomas Jefferson, A Summary View of the Rights of British America

“when a man has seen the woman whom he would have chosen if he had intended to marry speedily, his remaining a bachelor will usually depend on her resolution rather than on his.”

― George Eliot, Middlemarch

“Of happiness the chiefest part is a wise heart: And to defraud the gods in aught with peril's fraught.”

― Sophocles, Antigone

“Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.”

― Mao Zedong, Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung

“I have little left in myself—I must have you. The world may laugh—may call me absurd, selfish—but it does not signify. My very soul demands you: it will be satisfied, or it will take deadly vengeance on its frame.”

― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“It is impossible to win the great prizes of life without running risks, and the greatest of all prizes are those connected with the home.”

― Theodore Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt; an Autobiography

“Having a devil on one shoulder and an angel on the other is the most common thing in the world.”

― JAY-Z, Decoded

“Only light, or other waves that have no intrinsic mass, can move at the speed of light.”

― Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time

“He that is giddy thinks the world turns round.”

― William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew

“So spake the Fiend, and with necessity, the tyrant's plea, excused his devilish deeds.”

― John Milton, Paradise Lost

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