“A great calamity, for instance, is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened.”

― Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table

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“Many religions now come before us with ingratiating smirks and outspread hands, like an unctuous merchant in a bazaar. They offer consolation and solidarity and uplift, competing as they do in a marketplace. But we have a right to remember how...”

― Christopher Hitchens, God is Not Great

“In a coat of gold or a coat of red, a lion still has claws”

― George R. R. Martin, A Storm of Swords

“And for morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.”

― William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience

“Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.”

― Anthony Trollope, Phineas Redux

“she preferred imaginary heroes to real ones, because when tired of them, the former could be shut up in the tin kitchen till called for, and the latter were less manageable.”

― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“Maybe the books can get us half out of the cave. They just might stop us from making the same damn insane mistakes!”

― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“It ought to be the employer's ambition, as leader, to pay better wages than any similar line of business, and it ought to be the workman's ambition to make this possible.”

― Henry Ford, My Life and Work

“The 70s are very empty When I got my first TV set, I stopped caring so much about having close relationships with other people.”

― Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol

“the best contacts are when one knows the obstacles and still wants to preserve a relation.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night

“If love does not know how to give and take without restrictions, it is not love, but a transaction that never fails to lay stress on a plus and a minus.”

― Emma Goldman, Anarchism and Other Essays

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