“Life is there to be lived rather than to be written about.”

― W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage

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“Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.”

― William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

“All oppression creates a state of war.”

― Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex

“I think, even, if I ever die, and they stick me in a cemetery, and I have a tombstone and all, it'll say 'Holden Caulfield' on it, and then what year I was born and what year I died, and then right under that it'll say 'Fuck you.' I'm positive,...”

― J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“Nothing is easier than the expenditure of public money. It does not appear to belong to anybody. The temptation is overwhelming to bestow it on somebody.”

― Calvin Coolidge, State of the Union Address

“We cannot always assure the future of our friends; we have a better chance of assuring our future if we remember who our friends are.”

― Henry Kissinger, White House Years

“Who could refrain,That had a heart to love, and in that heartCourage to make's love known?”

― William Shakespeare, Macbeth

“There is no such thing as foreign or civil war; there is only just and unjust war.”

― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“In a word, it is the best and most natural arrangement that the wisest should govern the many, when it is assured that they will govern for its profit, and not for their own.”

― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract

“We are often unable to tell people what they NEED to know, because they WANT to know something else, and would therefore only misunderstand what we said.”

― George MacDonald, Lilith

“No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.”

― Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations

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