“Practical politics consists in ignoring facts, but education and politics are two different and often contradictory things.”

― Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams

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“Will and understanding are one and the same.”

― Baruch Spinoza, Ethics

“Memories and thoughts age, just as people do. But certain thoughts can never age, and certain memories can never fade.”

― Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

“To prevent the perpetuation of poverty is necessary if the benefits of machine production are to accrue in any degree to those most in need of them; but what is the use of making everybody rich if the rich themselves are miserable?”

― Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

“People over forty can seldom be permanently convinced of anything. At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Flappers and Philosophers

“Meanwhile the trees were just as green as before; the birds sang and the sun shone as clearly now as ever. The familiar surroundings had not darkened because of her grief, nor sickened because of her pain.”

― Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles

“only when our arms are sufficient beyond doubt can we be certain beyond doubt that they will never be employed.”

― John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address

“The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot for ever fence it out.”

― J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“There are not more than five musical notes, yet the combinations of these five give rise to more melodies than can ever be heard.”

― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

“It is a wise father that knows his own child.”

― William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

“'Classic.' A book which people praise and don't read.”

― Mark Twain, Following the Equator

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