“it never failed that during the dry years the people forgot about the rich years, and during the wet years they lost all memory of the dry years. It was always that way.”

― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

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“Now, there are some who question the scale of our ambitions, who suggest that our system cannot tolerate too many big plans. Their memories are short, for they have forgotten what this country has already done, what free men and women can achieve...”

― Barack Obama, Inaugural Address

“Monday morning found Tom Sawyer miserable. Monday morning always found him so—because it began another week's slow suffering in school. He generally began that day with wishing he had had no intervening holiday, it made the going into captivity...”

― Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

“Physical beauty is passing. A transitory possession. But beauty of the mind and richness of the spirit and tenderness of the heart–and I have all of those things–aren't taken away, but grow! Increase with the years!”

― Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

“I drank in my words like a thirsty man. I even began to believe them.”

― Charles Bukowski, Ham on Rye

“you can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.”

― Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

“It’s not that I don’t accept God, you must understand, it’s the world created by Him I don’t and cannot accept.”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“It is the experiences, the memories, the great triumphant joy of living to the fullest extent in which real meaning is found. God it's great to be alive! Thank you. Thank you.”

― Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild

“the mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience.”

― Frank Herbert, Dune

“Whether for this, or for some better reason, the founders of the schools of the Middle Ages included astronomy, along with geometry, arithmetic, and music, as one of the four branches of advanced education; and, in this respect, it is only just...”

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

“when the farmer has got his house, he may not be the richer but the poorer for it, and it be the house that has got him.”

― Henry David Thoreau, Walden

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