“People cry at weddings for the same reason they cry at happy endings: because they so desperately want to believe in something they know is not credible.”

― Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

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“I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.”

― William Shakespeare, Henry IV

“Make our faces vizards to our hearts, disguising what they are.”

― William Shakespeare, Macbeth

“Rather do I fear to lose truth by this pretension to possess it already wholly.”

― William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience

“Forty-four Americans have now taken the presidential oath. The words have been spoken during rising tides of prosperity and the still waters of peace. Yet, every so often the oath is taken amidst gathering clouds and raging storms.”

― Barack Obama, Inaugural Address

“In vain, therefore, should we pretend to determine any single event, or infer any cause or effect, without the assistance of observation and experience.”

― David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

“For a right is nothing more than the other aspect of duty.”

― Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

“Perhaps it takes courage to raise children.”

― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions.”

― Aristotle, Politics

“Strength is the outcome of need; security sets a premium on feebleness.”

― H. G. Wells, The Time Machine

“And for morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.”

― William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience

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