“As happens sometimes, a moment settled and hovered and remained for much more than a moment. And sound stopped and movement stopped for much, much more than a moment.”

― John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men

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“Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. If you look at it to admire it you are lost.”

― Samuel Butler, The Note-Books of Samuel Butler

“The most notable distinction between living and inanimate things is that the former maintain themselves by renewal.”

― John Dewey, Democracy and Education

“Flowers are so inconsistent! But I was too young to know how to love her...”

― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“Some truths did not bear saying, and some lies were necessary.”

― George R. R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“Today, however, we have to realize that a true ecological approach always becomes a social approach; it must integrate questions of justice in debates on the environment, so as to hear both the cry of the earth and the cry of the poor.”

― Pope Francis, Laudato si'

“Never build a dungeon you wouldn’t be happy to spend the night in yourself”

― Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!

“The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.”

― Mao Zedong, Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung

“Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.”

― Anthony Trollope, Phineas Redux

“They also serve who only stand and wait.”

― Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Over the Teacups

“It was amazing how instantaneously the choking fear vanished, amazing how suddenly the feeling of security washed over me — even before I was off the street — as soon as I heard his voice.”

― Stephenie Meyer, Twilight

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