“I know no country in which there is so little true independence of mind and freedom of discussion as in America.”

― Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

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“Many people don’t allow themselves to love . . . because there are a lot of things at risk, a lot of future and a lot of past.”

― Paulo Coelho, Veronika Decides to Die

“Every one needs to talk to some one . . . Before we had religion and other nonsense. Now for every one there should be some one to whom one can speak frankly, for all the valor that one could have one becomes very alone.”

― Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls

“Practical politics consists in ignoring facts, but education and politics are two different and often contradictory things.”

― Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams

“Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.”

― William Shakespeare, Othello

“Man usually believes, if only words he hears, that also with them goes material for thinking!”

― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust

“But Nature, it seems, was at the bottom of the affair, and she gains her ends with dogs as well as with men, making us do as she likes, shoving and pulling us along her ways, however rough, all but killing us at times in getting her lessons...”

― John Muir, Stickeen

“Violence . . . is the last refuge of the incompetent.”

― Isaac Asimov, Foundation

“Pity is the virtue of the law, and none but tyrants use it cruelly.”

― William Shakespeare, Timon of Athens

“It is only when you meet someone of a different culture from yourself that you begin to realise what your own beliefs really are.”

― George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier

“I always loved you, and if one loves anyone, one loves the whole person, just as they are and not as one would like them to be...”

― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

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