“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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“I desired always to stretch the night and fill it fuller and fuller with dreams.”

― Virginia Woolf, The Waves

“Good jobs must be the aim of welfare reform. As we reauthorize these important reforms, we must always remember the goal is to reduce dependency on government and offer every American the dignity of a job.”

― George W. Bush, State of the Union Address

“gold and silver . . . are . . . the direct incarnation of all human labour. Hence the magic of money.”

― Karl Marx, Das Kapital

“The idea that creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-intellectual myths of our time.”

― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“God's will! My liege, would you and I alone, without more help, could fight this royal battle!”

― William Shakespeare, Henry V

“It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance

“What is morality? . . . Judgment to distinguish right and wrong, vision to see the truth, courage to act upon it, dedication to that which is good, integrity to stand by the good at any price.”

― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

“Sometimes I lose faith in human nature for a time; I am assailed by doubt.”

― William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying

“once I had brains, and a heart also; so, having tried them both, I should much rather have a heart.”

― L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

“He longed for the little cabin and the sun-kissed sea—for the cool interior of the well-built house, and for the never-ending wonders of the many books.”

― Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes

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