“It is, that human beings are no longer born to their place in life, and chained down by an inexorable bond to the place they are born to, but are free to employ their faculties, and such favourable chances as offer, to achieve the lot which may...”

― John Stuart Mill, The Subjection of Women

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“I don't like trick horses. It takes all the—dignity out of a horse to make him do tricks. Why, a trick horse is kind of like an actor—no dignity, no character of his own.”

― John Steinbeck, The Red Pony

“I'm like everyone else — I see the world in terms of what I would like to see happen, not what actually does.”

― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“The 70s are very empty When I got my first TV set, I stopped caring so much about having close relationships with other people.”

― Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol

“The terrible thing, the almost impossible thing, is to hand over your whole self—all your wishes and precautions—to Christ. But it is far easier than what we are all trying to do instead. For what we are trying to do is to remain what we call...”

― C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

“And when one of them meets with his other half, the actual half of himself, whether he be a lover of youth or a lover of another sort, the pair are lost in an amazement of love and friendship and intimacy, and one will not be out of the other's...”

― Plato, Symposium

“This hobble of being alive is rather serious, don't you think so?”

― Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles

“Though our brother is upon the rack, as long as we ourselves are at our ease, our senses will never inform us of what he suffers. They never did, and never can, carry us beyond our own person, and it is by the imagination only that we can form...”

― Adam Smith, The Theory of Moral Sentiments

“There's just as much money to be made in the wreck of a civilization as in the upbuilding of one.”

― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

“He who tries to shine dims his own light.”

― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

“My crown is in my heart, not on my head;Not deck'd with diamonds and Indian stones,Not to be seen. My crown is call'd content;A crown it is that seldom kings enjoy.”

― William Shakespeare, Henry VI

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