“Coin is the sinews of war.”

― François Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel

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“I have been so overwhelmed by the many storms that have broken over my head, that I am become passive in the hands of the Almighty, like a sparrow in the talons of an eagle. I live, because it is not ordained for me to die.”

― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

“The lights of Saxon England were going out, and in the gathering darkness a gentle, grey-beard prophet foretold the end. When on his death-bed Edward spoke of a time of evil that was coming upon the land his inspired mutterings struck terror into...”

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

“Feelings are of four sorts: Sensations, Thoughts, Emotions, and Volitions. What are called Perceptions are merely a particular case of Belief, and Belief is a kind of thought. Actions are merely volitions followed by an effect.”

― John Stuart Mill, A System Of Logic

“'What happens when people open their hearts?' . . . 'They get better'”

― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“the freedom struggle was not merely a question of making speeches, holding meetings, passing resolutions, and sending deputations, but of meticulous organization, militant mass action, and, above all, the willingness to suffer and sacrifice.”

― Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom

“What a chimera then is man! What a novelty! What a monster, what a chaos, what a contradiction, what a prodigy! Judge of all things, imbecile worm of the earth; depositary of truth, a sink of uncertainty and error; the pride and refuse of the...”

― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

“Words mean more than what is written on paper. They need the human voice to give them deeper meaning.”

― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

“I am not one who was born in the possession of knowledge; I am one who is fond of antiquity, and earnest in seeking it there.”

― Confucius, Analects

“When red-headed people are above a certain social grade their hair is auburn.”

― Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

“The person in whom its invisible agony reaches a certain unendurable level will kill herself the same way a trapped person will eventually jump from the window of a burning high-rise.”

― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

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