“In the United States each separate journal exercises but little authority, but the power of the periodical press is only second to that of the people.”

― Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

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“Life is a series of pulls back and forth. You want to do one thing, but you are bound to do something else.”

― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie

“That the American, by temperament, worked to excess, was true; work and whiskey were his stimulants; work was a form of vice; but he never cared much for money or power after he earned them.”

― Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams

“I assert most unhesitatingly, that the religion of the south is a mere covering for the most horrid crimes,—a justifier of the most appalling barbarity,—a sanctifier of the most hateful frauds,—and a dark shelter under, which the darkest,...”

― Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

“There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.”

― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

“They accept evil not because they say yes, but because they don’t say no.”

― Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!

“There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson, The American Scholar

“Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the over-compensations for misery. And, of course, stability isn't nearly so spectacular as instability. And being contented has none of the glamour of a good fight against...”

― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“People can tell you to shut up, but they can't keep you from having an opinion.”

― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

“Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.”

― Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

“For anyone who had experienced just once the perfect understanding of one single thing, and had truly tasted how knowledge is accomplished, would recognize that of the infinity of other truths he understands nothing.”

― Galileo Galilei, Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems

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