“Great is the power of steady misrepresentation; but the history of science shows that fortunately this power does not long endure.”

― Charles Darwin, On The Origin of Species

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“He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it.”

― Confucius, Analects

“I do remember, and then when I try to remember, I forget.”

― A. A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

“That was what you did. You died. You did not know what it was about. You never had time to learn. They threw you in and told you the rules and the first time they caught you off base they killed you.”

― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

“The French codes are often difficult of comprehension, but they can be read by every one; nothing, on the other hand, can be more impenetrable to the uninitiated than a legislation founded upon precedents.”

― Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

“There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.”

― Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom

“There are some bad people in the world, and the reason they’re not in jail is because they’ve learned how to hide it.”

― Nicholas Sparks, The Lucky One

“The only place outside Heaven where you can be perfectly safe from all the dangers and perturbations of love is Hell.”

― C. S. Lewis, The Four Loves

“And this same knowledge extends likewise to all other things which I recollect having formerly demonstrated, such as the truths of geometry and the like; for what can be alleged against them to cause me to place them in doubt?”

― René Descartes, Meditations on First Philosophy

“Starting today, we must pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, and begin again the work of remaking America.”

― Barack Obama, Inaugural Address

“Most of us spend a good part of our lives in clearing our minds of the notions that sprang up unchecked during our nonage. This is called 'getting our experience.'”

― Honoré de Balzac, Lost Illusions

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