“In vain, therefore, should we pretend to determine any single event, or infer any cause or effect, without the assistance of observation and experience.”

― David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

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“That the king is not to be trusted without being looked after, or in other words, that a thirst for absolute power is the natural disease of monarchy.”

― Thomas Paine, Common Sense

“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.”

― Carl Jung, Modern Man in Search of a Soul

“Exiles notoriously feed much on hopes, and are unlikely to stay in banishment unless they are obliged.”

― George Eliot, Middlemarch

“There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.”

― Mark Twain, Following the Equator

“Something must happen—and that explains most human commitments. Something must happen, even loveless slavery, even war or death.”

― Albert Camus, The Fall

“You don't have to think too hard when you talk to a teacher.”

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

“Doubt . . . may be a poor encouragement to do anything, but it is a bad reason for doing nothing.”

― George MacDonald, Lilith

“I am sure care's an enemy to life.”

― William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

“The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labour. War is a way of shattering to pieces, or pouring into the stratosphere, or sinking in the depths of the sea, materials which might...”

― George Orwell, 1984

“it is by no means useless to travel, if a man wants to see something new.”

― Jules Verne, Around the World in 80 Days

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