“If the oppressor uses violence, the oppressed have no alternative but to respond violently. In our case it was simply a legitimate form of self-defense.”

― Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom

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“I cannot discover that any one knows enough about anything on this earth definitely to say what is and what is not possible.”

― Henry Ford, My Life and Work

“If you marry, you will regret it; if you do not marry, you will also regret it; if you marry or if you do not marry, you will regret both; whether you marry or you do not marry, you will regret both.”

― Søren Kierkegaard, Either/Or

“Time doesn’t seem to pass here: it just is.”

― J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“Further, nothing, except sin, is contrary to an act of virtue. But war is contrary to peace. Therefore war is always a sin.”

― Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica

“Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance

“Surely it was a good way to die, in the place of someone else, someone I loved. Noble, even. That ought to count for something.”

― Stephenie Meyer, Twilight

“Swann had learned by experience that the good intentions of a third party are powerless to control a woman who is annoyed to find herself pursued even into a ball-room by a man whom she does not love. Too often, the kind friend comes down again...”

― Marcel Proust, Swann's Way

“She was thrilling to a desire that urged her to go forward, to be in closer to that fire, to be squabbling with the dogs, and to be avoiding and dodging the stumbling feet of men.”

― Jack London, White Fang

“For monarchy in every instance is the Popery of government.”

― Thomas Paine, Common Sense

“All this will not be finished in the first one hundred days. Nor will it be finished in the first one thousand days... nor in the life of this administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin.”

― John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address

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