“A state half slave and half free cannot exist.”

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

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“What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?”

― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile

“You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.”

― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“For an hour in that room with Le Chiffre the certainty of impotence had been beaten into him and a scar had been left on his mind that could only be healed by experience.”

― Ian Fleming, Casino Royale

“His ear heard more than was said to him, and his slow speech had overtones not of thought, but of understanding beyond thought.”

― John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men

“He was a simple man who didn’t feel inferior about his lack of education and, even more amazing, showed no superiority because he had succeeded despite that lack.”

― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

“It is very easy to become so absorbed in our own pursuits, our own circle, our own type of work, that we forget how small a part this is of the total of human activity and how many things in the world are entirely unaffected by what we do.”

― Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

“Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.”

― J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

“So first of all let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself—nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyses needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.”

― Franklin D. Roosevelt, Looking Forward

“The only time a man can be brave is when he is afraid”

― George R. R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

“The only way to behave to a woman is to make love to her, if she is pretty, and to some one else, if she is plain.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

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