“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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“Writing is good, thinking is better.”

― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

“Annihilation itself is no death to evil. Only good where evil was, is evil dead. An evil thing must live with its evil until it chooses to be good. That alone is the slaying of evil.”

― George MacDonald, Lilith

“Let every man make known what kind of government would command his respect, and that will be one step toward obtaining it.”

― Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience

“I always went my own road and on my own legs where I had a mind to go.”

― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

“Oh! do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.”

― Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

“Anyway, where’s the fun without a bit of risk?”

― J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

“It is required of every man . . . that the spirit within him should walk abroad among his fellowmen, and travel far and wide; and if that spirit goes not forth in life, it is condemned to do so after death.”

― Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

“It would be hundreds of years before any emergent Amazons would ever grasp the fact that a man is vulnerable only in his pride”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night

“When people see some things as beautiful, other things become ugly.”

― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

“I must confess that I lost faith in the sanity of the world when I saw it suffering the painful disorder of this island.”

― H. G. Wells, The Island of Doctor Moreau

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