“She knew as well as I did that if there is one thing in the world the elephant is more afraid of than another it is a little barking dog.”

― Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book

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“Boredom is essentially a thwarted desire for events, not necessarily pleasant ones, but just occurrences such as will enable the victim of ennui to know one day from another. The opposite of boredom, in a word, is not pleasure, but excitement.”

― Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

“Then time began to flow again and the emptiness grew larger.”

― Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

“There needs not a great soul to make a hero; there needs a god-created soul which will be true to its origin; that will be a great soul!”

― Thomas Carlyle, On Heroes

“God must do everything for us. Our part is to yield and trust. We must confess, forsake, repudiate the self-life, and then reckon it crucified.”

― A. W. Tozer, The Pursuit of God

“A light heart lives long.”

― William Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost

“Every tax ought to be so contrived, as both to take out and to keep out of the pockets of the people as little as possible, over and above what it brings into the public treasury of the state.”

― Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations

“There are not more than five musical notes, yet the combinations of these five give rise to more melodies than can ever be heard.”

― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

“Every one is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.”

― Mark Twain, Following the Equator

“As if by running we won't have to get on with our lives.”

― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

“The fact is that the Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy.”

― Milton Friedman, Capitalism and Freedom

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