“what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.”

― George Eliot, Middlemarch

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“Anyone unable to understand how a useful religion can be founded on lies will not understand this book either.”

― Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle

“But it is essential to every inquiry about duty that we keep before our eyes how far superior man is by nature to cattle and other beasts: they have no thought except for sensual pleasure and this they are impelled by every instinct to seek;”

― Marcus Tullius Cicero, On Duties

“If I die prematurely, at any rate I shall be saved from being bored by my own success.”

― Samuel Butler, The Note-Books of Samuel Butler

“Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.”

― Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams

“This je ne sais quoi, so small an object that we cannot recognise it, agitates a whole country, princes, armies, the entire world. Cleopatra's nose: had it been shorter, the whole aspect of the world would have been altered.”

― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

“Vimes had never mastered ambition. It was something that happened to other people.”

― Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!

“Time, and Industry, produce every day new knowledge.”

― Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

“I want to go home . . . but I don’t know where it is. ”

― Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game

“it is better for reputation to fail conventionally than to succeed unconventionally.”

― John Maynard Keynes, The General Theory of Employment

“Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.”

― Steve Jobs, Stanford Commencement address

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