“The fundamental threat to freedom is power to coerce, be it in the hands of a monarch, a dictator, an oligarchy, or a momentary majority.”

― Milton Friedman, Capitalism and Freedom

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“Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.”

― Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams

“In all cases positive palaeontological evidence may be implicitly trusted; negative evidence is worthless, as experience has so often shown.”

― Charles Darwin, On The Origin of Species

“We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another.”

― Veronica Roth, Divergent

“Ghosts don't care if you believe in them”

― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud Incredibly Close

“We see the crude and corrupt beginnings of a higher civilisation blotted out by the ferocious uprising of the native tribes. Still, it is the primary right of men to die and kill for the land they live in, and to punish with exceptional severity...”

― Winston Churchill, A History of the English-Speaking Peoples

“We have not seen great things done in our time except by those who have been considered mean; the rest have failed.”

― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

“There is no living thing that is not afraid when it faces danger. The True courage is in facing danger when you are afraid, and that kind of courage you have in plenty.”

― L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

“While I hope that the chemical gets rid of my chronic depression, I want to continue being crazy, living my life the way I dream it, and not the way other people want it to be.”

― Paulo Coelho, Veronika Decides to Die

“Nothing conceivable is so petty, so insipid, so crowded with paltry interests, in one word so anti-poetic, as the life of a man in the United States.”

― Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

“only someone who is ready for everything, who doesn’t exclude any experience, even the most incomprehensible, will live the relationship with another person as something alive and will himself sound the depths of his own being.”

― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

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