“do you find it more poetic when you don't quite know what it means? I thought it was only in revealed religion that a mistranslation improved the sense.”

― W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage

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“You're a slave, a bound helpless slave to one thing in the world, your imagination.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

“In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.”

― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

“Being prime minister is a lonely job.”

― Margaret Thatcher, The Downing Street Years

“But the Hebrew word, the word timshel—‘Thou mayest’—that gives a choice. It might be the most important word in the world. That says the way is open. That throws it right back on a man. For if ‘Thou mayest’—it is also true that...”

― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“A poet’s mission is to make words do more work than they normally do, to make them work on more than one level.”

― JAY-Z, Decoded

“I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.”

― Henry Ford, My Life and Work

“He has to live in the midst of the incomprehensible, which is also detestable. And it has a fascination, too, that goes to work upon him.”

― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

“They do not love that do not show their love.”

― William Shakespeare, The Two Gentlemen of Verona

“A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man under Socialism

“Lord, we know what we are, but know not what we may be.”

― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

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