“Our business here is not to know all things, but those which concern our conduct.”

― John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

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“Conscience is but a word that cowards use, Devis'd at first to keep the strong in awe”

― William Shakespeare, Richard III

“It is to the credit of human nature, that, except where its selfishness is brought into play, it loves more readily than it hates.”

― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

“If you are a risk-taker, then the art is to protect the downside.”

― Richard Branson, Losing My Virginity

“My ambition is handicapped by laziness.”

― Charles Bukowski, Factotum

“a sentimentalist . . . is a man who sees an absurd value in everything, and doesn't know the market price of any single thing.”

― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

“A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm.”

― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“What we call morality is merely a desperate enterprise, a forlorn hope, on the part of our fellow creatures to reverse the order of the universe, which is strife and murder, the blind interplay of hostile forces.”

― Anatole France, The Gods Are Athirst

“We'd get sick on too many cookies, but ever so much sicker on no cookies at all.”

― Sinclair Lewis, Main Street

“We will not apologize for our way of life, nor will we waver in its defense, and for those who seek to advance their aims by inducing terror and slaughtering innocents, we say to you now, that our spirit is stronger, and cannot be broken.”

― Barack Obama, Inaugural Address

“If ice can burn . . . then love and hate can mate.”

― George R. R. Martin, A Storm of Swords

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