“There are some dangers which when they are braved, disappear, and which yet, when there is an obvious and apparent dread of them displayed, become certain and inevitable.”

― Walter Scott, Quentin Durward

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“Our object now, as then, is to vindicate the principles of peace and justice in the life of the world as against selfish and autocratic power and to set up amongst the really free and self-governed peoples of the world such a concert of purpose...”

― Woodrow Wilson, We Must Accept War

“I answer that, Man has free-will: otherwise counsels, exhortations, commands, prohibitions, rewards, and punishments would be in vain.”

― Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica

“Sometimes it is easier to see clearly into the liar than into the man who tells the truth. Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.”

― Albert Camus, The Fall

“I can honestly say that I have never gone into any business purely to make money. If that is the sole motive then I believe you are better off not doing it. A business has to be involving; it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative...”

― Richard Branson, Losing My Virginity

“Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise.”

― Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

“Human society is founded on mutual deceit; few friendships would endure if each knew what his friend said of him in his absence, although he then spoke in sincerity and without passion.”

― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

“The religion we have is our all-important instrument towards that end. With it we have brought the Four Kingdoms under our control, even at the moment when they would have crushed us. It is the most potent device known with which to control men...”

― Isaac Asimov, Foundation

“In dim ways he recognised in man the animal that had fought itself to primacy over the other animals of the Wild.”

― Jack London, White Fang

“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

“At your age we have faith in life; it is the privilege of youth to believe and hope, but old men see death more clearly.”

― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

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