“I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doing what I knew to be wrong.”

― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

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“The need for government in these respects arises because absolute freedom is impossible. However attractive anarchy may be as a philosophy, it is not feasible in a world of imperfect men.”

― Milton Friedman, Capitalism and Freedom

“did it matter that she must inevitably cease completely; all this must go on without her; did she resent it; or did it not become consoling to believe that death ended absolutely?”

― Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway

“Why live in real life? It's better to dream. One can dream the most delightful things, but real life is a bore.”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“All men live enveloped in whale-lines. All are born with halters round their necks; but it is only when caught in the swift, sudden turn of death, that mortals realize the silent, subtle, ever-present perils of life.”

― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

“I don't have much in the way of money or worldly possessions, I'm not beautiful, intelligent or clever, but I'm happy, and I intend to stay that way! I was born happy, I love people, I have a trusting nature, and I'd like everyone else to be...”

― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

“In a great national crisis like ours unanimity of action among those seeking a common end is very desirable—almost indispensable. And yet no approach to such unanimity is attainable unless some deference shall be paid to the will of the...”

― Abraham Lincoln, State of the Union Address

“A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.”

― Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams

“Ah, the prayers of the millions, how they must fight and destroy each other on their way to the throne of God.”

― John Steinbeck, Tortilla Flat

“Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives.”

― Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot

“Just because somebody's dead, you don't just stop liking them, for God's sake—especially if they were about a thousand times nicer than the people you know that're alive and all.”

― J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

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