“The most notable distinction between living and inanimate things is that the former maintain themselves by renewal.”

― John Dewey, Democracy and Education

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“She hath more hair than wit, and more faults than hairs, and more wealth than faults.”

― William Shakespeare, The Two Gentlemen of Verona

“the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.”

― George Eliot, Middlemarch

“I don't want to care. If I care about things, it'll just be worse, it'll just be another thing to worry about. It's less painful if I don't care.”

― Bret Easton Ellis, Less Than Zero

“We certainly do not forget you as soon as you forget us. It is, perhaps, our fate rather than our merit. We cannot help ourselves. We live at home, quiet, confined, and our feelings prey upon us.”

― Jane Austen, Persuasion

“I have no taste for work any longer, I can do nothing more except wait for night.”

― Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

“It's a comfortable thing, music is.”

― William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying

“Besides, nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner. Conscience makes egotists of us all.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“He called you pretty . . . That's practically an insult, the way you look right now. You're much more than beautiful.”

― Stephenie Meyer, Twilight

“When science has uttered her voice, let babblers hold their peace.”

― Jules Verne, Journey to the Center of the Earth

“The nineteenth-century liberal regarded an extension of freedom as the most effective way to promote welfare and equality; the twentieth-century liberal regards welfare and equality as either prerequisites of or alternatives to freedom.”

― Milton Friedman, Capitalism and Freedom

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