“My mind . . . rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere.”

― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Sign of the Four

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“People are very fond of giving away what they need most themselves. It is what I call the depth of generosity.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Everybody look at you strange, say you changedLike you work that hard to stay the same”

― JAY-Z, Most Kingz

“The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favours such a confidence.”

― Michel de Montaigne, The Essays of Michel de Montaigne

“Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.”

― Elie Wiesel, Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech

“The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent to the concerns of such puny creatures as we.”

― Carl Sagan, Cosmos

“Boys enjoy the misery of their companions, at least village boys in that day did, and in later life I have found that all adults are not free from the peculiarity.”

― Ulysses S. Grant, Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant

“Stuff your eyes with wonder . . . live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.”

― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“Trout, incidentally, had written a book about a money tree. It had twenty-dollar bills for leaves. Its flowers were government bonds. Its fruit was diamonds. It attracted human beings who killed each other around the roots and made very good...”

― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

“The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.”

― Winston Churchill, A History of the English-Speaking Peoples

“Possibly this is woman's nature. When her passion is roused she loses her sensibility for all that is outside it. When, like the river, we women keep to our banks, we give nourishment with all that we have: when we overflow them we destroy with...”

― Rabindranath Tagore, The Home and the World

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