“People like you to be something, preferably what they are.”

― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

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“And, in fine, of false sciences I thought I knew the worth sufficiently to escape being deceived by the professions of an alchemist, the predictions of an astrologer, the impostures of a magician, or by the artifices and boasting of any of those...”

― René Descartes, Discourse on the Method

“I know no country in which there is so little true independence of mind and freedom of discussion as in America.”

― Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

“It is hard to fight against impulsive desire. Whatever it wants it will buy at the cost of the soul.”

― Heraclitus, On Nature

“I pleasure those whom I would liefest please.”

― Sophocles, Antigone

“Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.”

― Samuel Butler, The Note-Books of Samuel Butler

“Our object now, as then, is to vindicate the principles of peace and justice in the life of the world as against selfish and autocratic power and to set up amongst the really free and self-governed peoples of the world such a concert of purpose...”

― Woodrow Wilson, We Must Accept War

“Every impulse of feeling should be guided by reason; and, in my opinion, exertion should always be in proportion to what is required.”

― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“dying's none so dreadful; it's the funking makes it bad.”

― H. G. Wells, The War of the Worlds

“What the eye doesn't see the heart doesn't grieve for”

― W. Somerset Maugham, The Painted Veil

“The best books . . . are those that tell you what you know already.”

― George Orwell, 1984

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