“Power and machinery, money and goods, are useful only as they set us free to live.”

― Henry Ford, My Life and Work

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“Human nature will not flourish, any more than a potato, if it be planted and replanted, for too long a series of generations, in the same worn-out soil.”

― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

“The trouble with me is, I like it when somebody digresses. It's more interesting and all.”

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

“The pupil dilates in the dark, and the soul dilates in misfortune and ends by finding God there.”

― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe.”

― Frank Zappa, The Real Frank Zappa Book

“Example is more powerful than precept.”

― Aesop, Aesop's Fables

“No rose without a thorn. Yes, but many a thorn without a rose.”

― Arthur Schopenhauer, Studies in Pessimism

“To make oneself object, to make oneself passive, is very different from being a passive object: a woman in love is neither asleep nor a corpse; there is a surge in her that ceaselessly falls and rises: it is this surge that creates the spell that...”

― Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex

“In short, my aunt stipulated, at one and the same time, that whoever came to see her must approve of her way of life, commiserate with her in her sufferings, and assure her of an ultimate recovery.”

― Marcel Proust, Swann's Way

“There is only one thing I should like better; and that would be to see the Philosopher making the same sort of meal himself, with the same relish.”

― Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist

“In the beginning was the Word. Then came the fucking word processor. Then came the thought processor. Then came the death of literature. And so it goes.”

― Dan Simmons, Hyperion

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