“The family structure. Victory over adversity through the family. He believed in it. Take the family, mix with God and Country, add the ten-hour day and you had what was needed.”

― Charles Bukowski, Ham on Rye

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“he wondered at what age 'nice' women began to speak for themselves.”

― Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

“the history of science . . . teaches that the most we can hope for is successive improvement in our understanding, learning from our mistakes, an asymptotic approach to the Universe, but with the proviso that absolute certainty will always elude us.”

― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World

“The people should fight for their law as for their city wall.”

― Heraclitus, On Nature

“It is for this reason that we find that co-existence, which could neither be in time alone, for time has no contiguity, nor in space alone, for space has no before, after, or now, is first established through matter.”

― Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation

“My fellow Americans, I stand before you today, humbled by the task before us, grateful for the trust bestowed, mindful of the sacrifices born by our ancestors.”

― Barack Obama, Inaugural Address

“The chief foundations of all states, new as well as old or composite, are good laws and good arms; and as there cannot be good laws where the state is not well armed, it follows that where they are well armed they have good laws.”

― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

“Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life”

― Marcel Proust, Swann's Way

“Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, so do our minutes hasten to their end; each changing place with that which goes before, in sequent toil all forwards do contend.”

― William Shakespeare, Shakespeare's Sonnets

“I wanted to give up the idea I had any control. Shake things up. To be saved by chaos. To see if I could cope, I wanted to force myself to grow again. To explode my comfort zone.”

― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

“Anyone who falls in love is searching for the missing pieces of themselves. So anyone who's in love gets sad when they think of their lover.”

― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

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