“The History of the World, I said already, was the Biography of Great Men.”

― Thomas Carlyle, On Heroes

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“Capitalism – which in its purest form is entrepreneurism even among the poorest of the poor – does work; but those who make money from it should put back into society, not just sit on it as if they are hatching eggs.”

― Richard Branson, Losing My Virginity

“Men or nations who think they can revive the Faith in order to make a good society might just as well think they can use the stairs of Heaven as a short cut to the nearest chemist's shop.”

― C. S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

“Fight on all occasions. Fight the more for duels being forbidden, since consequently there is twice as much courage in fighting.”

― Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers

“When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them.”

― Confucius, Analects

“New friends . . . can often have a better time together than old friends.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night

“The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.”

― Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

“In adolescence, I hated life and was continually on the verge of suicide, from which, however, I was restrained by the desire to know more mathematics.”

― Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

“When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object. In the realm of kitsch, the dictatorship of the heart reigns supreme.”

― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy; it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.”

― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

“Old George Orwell got it backward. Big Brother isn't watching. He's singing and dancing. He's pulling rabbits out of a hat. Big Brother's busy holding your attention every moment you're awake.”

― Chuck Palahniuk, Lullaby

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