“The first principle is that you must not fool yourself—and you are the easiest person to fool.”

― Richard Feynman, Surely You're Joking

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“silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.”

― Plutarch, Moralia

“We’re both looking at the same moon, in the same world. We’re connected to reality by the same line. All I have to do is quietly draw it towards me.”

― Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart

“Nationalism is power-hunger tempered by self-deception.”

― George Orwell, Notes on Nationalism

“Fear is strange soil. Mainly it grows obedience like corn, which grows in rows and makes weeding easy. But sometimes it grows the potatoes of defiance, which flourish underground.”

― Terry Pratchett, Small Gods

“Where nature makes natural allies of us all, we can demonstrate that beneficial relations are possible even with those with whom we most deeply disagree—and this must someday be the basis of world peace and world law.”

― John F. Kennedy, State of the Union Address

“He that is giddy thinks the world turns round.”

― William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew

“the States are as the men are; they grow out of human characters.”

― Plato, The Republic

“if a woman doubts as to whether she should accept a man or not, she certainly ought to refuse him.”

― Jane Austen, Emma

“The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.”

― J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“The best remedy for those who are frightened, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere they can be alone, alone with the sky, nature and God.”

― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

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