“Obedience is not enough. Unless he is suffering, how can you be sure that he is obeying your will and not his own? Power is in inflicting pain and humiliation. Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new...”

― George Orwell, 1984

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“Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.”

― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

“Dreams . . . are often most profound when they seem most crazy.”

― Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams

“Failing to fetch me at first keep encouraged,Missing me one place search another,I stop somewhere waiting for you”

― Walt Whitman, Song of Myself

“You can't stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do it.”

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

“For we seek not the worldwide victory of one nation or system but a worldwide victory of man. The modern globe is too small, its weapons are too destructive, and its disorders are too contagious to permit any other kind of victory.”

― John F. Kennedy, State of the Union Address

“The occurrence of successive forms of life upon our globe is an historical fact, which cannot be disputed; and the relation of these successive forms, as stages of evolution of the same type, is established in various cases.”

― Thomas Henry Huxley, The Advance of Science in the Last Half-Century

“No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.”

― Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations

“To mix Law and Gospel not only clouds the knowledge of grace, it cuts out Christ altogether.”

― Martin Luther, Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians

“The success of our economy has always depended, not just on the size of our gross domestic product, but on the reach of our prosperity, on our ability to extend opportunity to every willing heart, not out of charity, but because it is the surest...”

― Barack Obama, Inaugural Address

“So cowards fight when they can fly no further; so doves do peck the falcon's piercing talons; so desperate thieves, all hopeless of their lives, breathe out invectives 'gainst the officers.”

― William Shakespeare, Henry VI

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