“Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf. Survival first, then happiness as we can manage it.”

― Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game

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“Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity.”

― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

“I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and incur my own abhorrence.”

― Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

“Complex ideas may, perhaps, be well known by definition, which is nothing but an enumeration of those parts or simple ideas, that compose them.”

― David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

“Life is pain . . . Anybody that says different is selling something.”

― William Goldman, The Princess Bride

“Where will wants not, a way opens”

― J. R. R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

“Mama, the more I know of the world, the more am I convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!”

― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

“There's nothing ill can dwell in such a temple. If the ill spirit have so fair a house, good things will strive to dwell with't.”

― William Shakespeare, The Tempest

“Benevolence is often very peremptory.”

― W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage

“Are you sure we can move freely in Space? Right and left we can go, backward and forward freely enough, and men always have done so. I admit we move freely in two dimensions. But how about up and down? Gravitation limits us there.”

― H. G. Wells, The Time Machine

“No man is above the law and no man is below it”

― Theodore Roosevelt, State of the Union Address

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