“If you look for perfection, you will never be satisfied.”

― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

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“Be men, or be more than men. Be steady to your purposes and firm as a rock. This ice is not made of such stuff as your hearts may be; it is mutable and cannot withstand you if you say that it shall not.”

― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.”

― G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

“Ender Wiggin isn't a killer. He just wins—thoroughly.”

― Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game

“Ender didn’t like fighting. He didn’t like Peter’s kind, the strong against the weak, and he didn’t like his own kind either, the smart against the stupid.”

― Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game

“It seems to me I am trying to tell you ya dream—making a vain attempt, because no relation of a dream can convey the dream-sensation, that commingling of absurdity, surprise, and bewilderment in a tremor of struggling revolt, that notion of...”

― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

“We should support whatever the enemy opposes and oppose whatever the enemy supports.”

― Mao Zedong, Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung

“And history teaches this iron law of revolutions: the more extensive the eradication of existing authority, the more its successors must rely on naked power to establish themselves. For, in the end, legitimacy involves an acceptance of authority...”

― Henry Kissinger, Diplomacy

“I would say that today, dishonesty is the rule, and honesty the exception. It could be, statistically, that more people are honest than dishonest, but the few that really control things are not honest, and that tips the balance.”

― Frank Zappa, The Real Frank Zappa Book

“freedom, not power, is the greatest good. That man is truly free who desires what he is able to perform, and does what he desires.”

― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile

“No, it was more than that; his wartime experience had taught him to trust his instincts, even though he’d never been sure where they’d come from.”

― Nicholas Sparks, The Lucky One

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