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

― Theodore Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt; an Autobiography

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“I am not asking anyone to accept Christianity if his best reasoning tells him that the weight of the evidence is against it.”

― C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

“You have to know the past to understand the present.”

― Carl Sagan, Cosmos

“Every few weeks she would shut herself up in her room, put on her scribbling suit, and 'fall into a vortex', as she expressed it, writing away at her novel with all her heart and soul, for till that was finished she could find no peace.”

― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“I am not a collection of members which we call the human body: I am not a subtle air distributed through these members, I am not a wind, a fire, a vapour, a breath, nor anything at all which I can imagine or conceive; because I have assumed that...”

― René Descartes, Meditations on First Philosophy

“To 'Know Thyself' is considered quite an accomplishment, which it has taken us, who are your elders, months to perfect.”

― L. Frank Baum, The Marvelous Land of Oz

“There exists in the world a single path along which no one can go except you: whither does it lead? Do not ask, go along it.”

― Friedrich Nietzsche, Untimely Meditations

“I speak to you as just another human being; as a simple monk.”

― 14th Dalai Lama, Nobel Lecture

“Gentle reader, may you never feel what I then felt! May your eyes never shed such stormy, scalding, heart-wrung tears as poured from mine. May you never appeal to Heaven in prayers so hopeless and so agonised as in that hour left my lips; for...”

― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“a loveless world is a dead world, and always there comes an hour when one is weary of prisons, of one's work, and of devotion to duty, and all one craves for is a loved face, the warmth and wonder of a loving heart.”

― Albert Camus, The Plague

“For, although one may be very strong in armed forces, yet in entering a province one has always need of the goodwill of the natives.”

― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

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