“Experience is not worth the getting. It's not a thing that happens pleasantly to a passive you—it's a wall that an active you runs up against.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

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“I think you are wrong to want a heart. It makes most people unhappy. If you only knew it, you are in luck not to have a heart.”

― L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

“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

“Truth is always in harmony with herself, and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice that may consist with wrong-doing.”

― Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience

“Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands.”

― Jane Austen, Persuasion

“ACQUAINTANCE, n. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.”

― Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

“Fear is contagious. You can catch it.”

― Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book

“By-and-by we shall take turns, for marriage, they say, halves one's rights and doubles one's duties.”

― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“You face the biggest challenge of all: to have the courage to seek your dream regardless of what anyone else says or thinks. You are the only person alive who can see your big picture—and even you can’t see it all.”

― Oprah Winfrey, What I Know For Sure

“Sometimes the isle was thick with savages, with whom we fought, sometimes full of dangerous animals that hunted us, but in all my fancies nothing occurred to me so strange and tragic as our actual adventures.”

― Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island

“Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.”

― Bertrand Russell, A History of Western Philosophy

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