“Sometimes I think everyone is just pretending to be brave, and none of us really are. Maybe pretending is how you get brave, I don’t know.”

― George R. R. Martin, A Storm of Swords

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“It's so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right.”

― George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman

“But of all the instances of error arising from this physical fancy, the worst is that we have before us: the habit of exhaustively describing a social sickness, and then propounding a social drug.”

― G. K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World

“Time is more important to me than distance.”

― Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

“BRIDE, n. A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.”

― Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

“In politics, my dear fellow, you know, as well as I do, there are no men, but ideas—no feelings, but interests; in politics we do not kill a man, we only remove an obstacle, that is all.”

― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

“Man is an idea, and a precious small idea, once he turns his back on love. And that's my point; we, mankind, have lost the capacity for love.”

― Albert Camus, The Plague

“suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but—I hope—into a better shape.”

― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

“They give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking, or the intentional noting of connections; learning naturally results.”

― John Dewey, Democracy and Education

“Pity is the feeling which arrests the mind in the presence of whatsoever is grave and constant in human sufferings and unites it with the human sufferer. Terror is the feeling which arrests the mind in the presence of whatsoever is grave and...”

― James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—I took the one less travelled by,And that has made all the difference.”

― Robert Frost, The Road Not Taken

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