“history is filled with brilliant people who wanted to fix things and just made them worse.”

― Chuck Palahniuk, Lullaby

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“Economy is the method by which we prepare to-day to afford the improvements of to-morrow.”

― Calvin Coolidge, State of the Union Address

“Don't touch me! Don't question me! Don't speak to me! Stay with me!”

― Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot

“To 'Know Thyself' is considered quite an accomplishment, which it has taken us, who are your elders, months to perfect.”

― L. Frank Baum, The Marvelous Land of Oz

“And for morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.”

― William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience

“In Washington the appearance of power is therefore almost as important as the reality of it; in fact, the appearance is frequently its essential reality.”

― Henry Kissinger, White House Years

“Liberty may be gained, but can never be recovered.”

― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract

“I want you always to remember me. Will you remember that I existed, and that I stood next to you here like this?”

― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“there is something so amiable in the prejudices of a young mind, that one is sorry to see them give way to the reception of more general opinions.”

― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

“If children were brought into the world by an act of pure reason alone, would the human race continue to exist? Would not a man rather have so much sympathy with the coming generation as to spare it the burden of existence? or at any rate not...”

― Arthur Schopenhauer, Studies in Pessimism

“And this I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. And this I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected. And this I must fight against: any...”

― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

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