“So please, oh please, we beg, we pray,Go throw your TV set away,And in its place you can installA lovely bookshelf on the wall.”

― Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

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“I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend. Make me happy, and I shall again be virtuous.”

― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.”

― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

“Feelings are of four sorts: Sensations, Thoughts, Emotions, and Volitions. What are called Perceptions are merely a particular case of Belief, and Belief is a kind of thought. Actions are merely volitions followed by an effect.”

― John Stuart Mill, A System Of Logic

“If a country is governed with repression, the people are depressed and crafty.”

― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

“Capitalism – which in its purest form is entrepreneurism even among the poorest of the poor – does work; but those who make money from it should put back into society, not just sit on it as if they are hatching eggs.”

― Richard Branson, Losing My Virginity

“The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries in itself the causes of its destruction.”

― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract

“sometimes I fear that this new generation, educated or hypereducated as it is, will lack those qualities of humanity, of hospitality, of kindly humour which belonged to an older day.”

― James Joyce, Dubliners

“The desire for imaginary benefits often involves the loss of present blessings.”

― Aesop, Aesop's Fables

“There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.”

― Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Many religions now come before us with ingratiating smirks and outspread hands, like an unctuous merchant in a bazaar. They offer consolation and solidarity and uplift, competing as they do in a marketplace. But we have a right to remember how...”

― Christopher Hitchens, God is Not Great

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