“And finally comes culture, which is entertainment, relaxation, transport out of the pain of living.”

― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

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“We'll take the goodwill for the deed, and thank you as much as if we had.”

― François Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel

“It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.”

― Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia

“The source of every crime, is some defect of the understanding; or some errour in reasoning, or some sudden force of the passions.”

― Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

“Always to be right, always to trample forward, and never to doubt, are not these the great qualities with which dullness takes the lead in the world?”

― William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair

“Thinking and feeling that have to do with action in association with others is as much a social mode of behavior as is the most overt cooperative or hostile act.”

― John Dewey, Democracy and Education

“Cosmos is a Greek word for the order of the universe. It is, in a way, the opposite of Chaos.”

― Carl Sagan, Cosmos

“Truth, of course, must of necessity be stranger than fiction, for we have made fiction to suit ourselves.”

― G. K. Chesterton, Heretics

“Except you are a true sexton, books are but dead bodies to you, and a library nothing but a catacomb!”

― George MacDonald, Lilith

“What I'd really like is to be a plowshare. I don't know what that is, but it sounds like an existence with some point to it.”

― Terry Pratchett, The Colour of Magic

“You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway.”

― John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent

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