“Failure is a state of mind. It’s like one of those sand traps an ant lion digs. You keep sliding back. Takes one hell of a jump to get out of it.”

― John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent

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“The best thing for being sad . . . is to learn something. That is the only thing that never fails.”

― T. H. White, The Once and Future King

“The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.”

― Woodrow Wilson, The New Freedom

“The best commendation of any work is to know that one has done the work that God has given him well and that God is pleased with his effort.”

― Martin Luther, Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians

“You noticed that her eyes were what I might call hard. She has never been sheltered. She has had to take care of herself, and a young girl can't take care of herself and keep her eyes soft and gentle like—like yours, for example.”

― Jack London, Martin Eden

“How can cosmic religious feeling be communicated from one person to another, if it can give rise to no definite notion of a God and no theology? In my view, it is the most important function of art and science to awaken this feeling and keep it...”

― Albert Einstein, The world as I see it

“the States are as the men are; they grow out of human characters.”

― Plato, The Republic

“Civil war—what does that mean? Is there a foreign war? Is not all war between men, war between brothers?”

― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor: he took my measure anew every time he saw me, whilst all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me.”

― George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman

“we want to live and move, though we have no reason to, because it happens that it is the nature of life to live and move, to want to live and move. If it were not for this, life would be dead.”

― Jack London, The Sea-Wolf

“Destroy my desires, eradicate my ideals, show me something better, and I will follow you.”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground

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