“The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks.”

― Christopher Hitchens, Letters to a Young Contrarian

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“I answer that, Man has free-will: otherwise counsels, exhortations, commands, prohibitions, rewards, and punishments would be in vain.”

― Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica

“When the American republics begin to degenerate it will be easy to verify the truth of this observation, by remarking whether the number of political impeachments augments.”

― Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

“People always go. Always. They always believe they can make a better life than in the old world.”

― Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game

“The eye which turns from a white object in the light of the sun and goes into a less fully lighted place will see everything as dark.”

― Leonardo da Vinci, The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci

“Confound you handsome young fellows! you think of having it all your own way in the world. You don't understand women. They don't admire you half so much as you admire yourselves.”

― George Eliot, Middlemarch

“now that she had nothing to lose, she was free.”

― Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes

“For the first time since his capture, fear came to Bond and crawled up his spine.”

― Ian Fleming, Casino Royale

“all things are admired, either because they are new, or because they are great.”

― Francis Bacon, The Advancement of Learning

“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will, which I now exert to leave you.”

― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“he's a gentleman: look at his boots.”

― George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion

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