“First . . . your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life.”

― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

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“He who has seen present things has seen all, both everything which has taken place from all eternity and everything which will be for time without end; for all things are of one kin and of one form.”

― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“To some of us, the nights are too long. To some, the days.”

― Chuck Palahniuk, Haunted

“My teachings are easy to understand and easy to put into practice. Yet your intellect will never grasp them, and if you try to practice them, you'll fail. My teachings are older than the world. How can you grasp their meaning? If you want to know...”

― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

“You're not gonna change any of them by talkin' right, they've got to want to learn themselves, and when they don't want to learn there's nothing you can do but keep your mouth shut or talk their language.”

― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“Having experienced both, I am not sure which is worse: intense feeling, or the absence of it.”

― Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

“Medicine is the restoration of discordant elements; sickness is the discord of the elements infused into the living body.”

― Leonardo da Vinci, The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci

“In a certain sense the liberation of slaves is the destruction of property—property acquired by descent or by purchase, the same as any other property.”

― Abraham Lincoln, State of the Union Address

“See what a ready tongue suspicion hath!”

― William Shakespeare, Henry IV

“A proposition must be plain to be adopted by the understanding of a people. A false notion which is clear and precise will always meet with a greater number of adherents in the world than a true principle which is obscure or involved.”

― Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

“The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks.”

― Christopher Hitchens, Letters to a Young Contrarian

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