“Leaders are responsible not for running public opinion polls but for the consequences of their actions.”

― Henry Kissinger, White House Years

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“I often stood in front of the mirror alone, wondering how ugly a person could get.”

― Charles Bukowski, Ham on Rye

“if we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other—that man, that woman, that child is my brother, my sister.”

― Mother Teresa, Where There Is Love

“I have been told that beauty is the great seducer of men.”

― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“It is a strange desire, to seek power and to lose liberty: or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.”

― Francis Bacon, The Essays of Francis Bacon

“All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their peril.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“The more the world speeds up the more it seems necessary that we should learn to pick out of the past the things that we feel were important and beautiful then. One of these things was a quality of tranquillity in people, which you rarely meet today.”

― Eleanor Roosevelt, The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt

“Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.”

― Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams

“A thousand moral paintings I can show that shall demonstrate these quick blows of Fortune's more pregnantly than words.”

― William Shakespeare, Timon of Athens

“But, tears were not the things to find their way to Mr. Bumble's soul; his heart was waterproof.”

― Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist

“Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.”

― Samuel Johnson, The History of Rasselas

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