“The bank is something more than men, I tell you. It's the monster. Men made it, but they can't control it.”

― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

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“The singing of a man cast away upon a desolate island might be as appropriately considered as evidence of contentment and happiness, as the singing of a slave; the songs of the one and of the other are prompted by the same emotion.”

― Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

“The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more service for the betterment of life.”

― Henry Ford, My Life and Work

“The weird thing about houses is that they almost always look like nothing is happening inside of them, even though they contain most of our lives. I wondered if that was sort of the point of architecture.”

― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“And as the morning steals upon the night, melting the darkness, so their rising senses begin to chase the ignorant fumes that mantle their clearer reason.”

― William Shakespeare, The Tempest

“Unfortunately, yes; the people we care for most are not good for us when we are ill.”

― Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway

“To make light of philosophy is to be a true philosopher.”

― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

“To a great mind, nothing is little”

― Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet

“Our flesh shrinks from what it dreads and responds to the stimulus of what it desires by a purely reflex action of the nervous system. Our eyelid closes before we are aware that the fly is about to enter our eye.”

― James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

“Ah me, how weak a thing the heart of woman is!”

― William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

“In every respect the burthen is hard on those who attack an almost universal opinion.”

― John Stuart Mill, The Subjection of Women

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