“Americans learn only from catastrophes and not from experience.”

― Theodore Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt; an Autobiography

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“‘What is your conception of beauty?’ I said I thought it was an omnipresence of death and loveliness, a smiling sadness that we discern in nature and all things, a mystic communion that the poet feels – an expression of it can be a dustbin...”

― Charlie Chaplin, My Autobiography

“From a child I was fond of reading, and all the little money that came into my hands was ever laid out in books.”

― Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

“If I could wake up in a different place, at a different time, could I wake up as a different person?”

― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“Killing is not nearly as easy as the innocent believe.”

― J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

“Looking at these stars suddenly dwarfed my own troubles and all the gravities of terrestrial life. I thought of their unfathomable distance, and the slow inevitable drift of their movements out of the unknown past into the unknown future.”

― H. G. Wells, The Time Machine

“Few things are impossible to diligence and skill.”

― Samuel Johnson, The History of Rasselas

“How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!”

― Jane Austen, Emma

“My life is for itself and not for a spectacle. I much prefer that it should be of a lower strain, so it be genuine and equal, than that it should be glittering and unsteady.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance

“he who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.”

― Aristotle, Politics

“There are roads which must not be followed, armies which must be not attacked, towns which must not be besieged, positions which must not be contested, commands of the sovereign which must not be obeyed.”

― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

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