“Tiger got to hunt, Bird got to fly; Man got to sit and wonder, 'Why, why, why?' Tiger got to sleep, Bird got to land; Man got to tell himself he understand.”

― Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle

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“A group of pagan ruffians and pirates had gained possession of an effective military and naval machine, but they faced a mass of formidable veterans whom they had to feed and manage, and for whom they must provide killings. Such men make plans,...”

― Winston Churchill, A History of the English-Speaking Peoples

“Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can.”

― Yann Martel, Life of Pi

“Immediate necessity makes many things convenient, which if continued would grow into oppressions. Expedience and right are different things.”

― Thomas Paine, Common Sense

“Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself.”

― Henry David Thoreau, Walden

“When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it;— this is knowledge.”

― Confucius, Analects

“If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn’t. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.”

― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

“He smiled the most exquisite smile, veiled by memory, tinged by dreams.”

― Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

“man invented God to sanctify the dominion that he had usurped for himself over the cow and the horse.”

― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“I wanted to be alone for a thousand years in order to reflect on what I had seen and heard — and in order to forget.”

― Henry Miller, Tropic of Capricorn

“Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.”

― Aristotle, Politics

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