“This seemed simple as running water; but simplicity is the most deceitful mistress that ever betrayed man.”

― Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams

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“People over forty can seldom be permanently convinced of anything. At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Flappers and Philosophers

“We are here and it is now. The way I see it is, after that, everything tends towards guesswork.”

― Terry Pratchett, Small Gods

“Now he was proving it again. Each time was a new time and he never thought about the past when he was doing it.”

― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

“Crush humanity out of shape once more, under similar hammers, and it will twist itself into the same tortured forms. Sow the same seed of rapacious license and oppression over again, and it will surely yield the same fruit according to its kind.”

― Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

“In our view, however, derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction, carrying dangers that, while now latent, are potentially lethal.”

― Warren Buffett, The Essays of Warren Buffett

“He who tries to shine dims his own light.”

― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

“Though patience be a tired mare, yet she will plod.”

― William Shakespeare, Henry V

“Nature does not work with an end in view. For the eternal and infinite Being, which we call God or Nature, acts by the same necessity as that whereby it exists.”

― Baruch Spinoza, Ethics

“In Books lies the soul of the whole Past Time; the articulate audible voice of the Past, when the body and material substance of it has altogether vanished like a dream.”

― Thomas Carlyle, On Heroes

“The young habitually mistake lust for love, they’re infested with idealism of all kinds.”

― Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

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