“before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.”

― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

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“There are wonders enough out there without our inventing any.”

― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World

“The last clear definite function of man—muscles aching to work, minds aching to create beyond the single need—this is man.”

― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

“But he hated to be sober. It made him conscious of the people around him, of that air of struggle, of greedy ambition, of hope more sordid than despair, of incessant passage up or down, which in every metropolis is most in evidence through the...”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

“What is now proved was once, only imagined.”

― William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

“if you want men to behave well to you, you must be beastly to them; if you treat them decently they make you suffer for it.”

― W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage

“The rarest offerings of the purest loves are but a self-indulgence, and no generosity at all.”

― Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd

“No man means evil but the devil, and we shall know him by his horns.”

― William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor

“Sometimes I think everyone is just pretending to be brave, and none of us really are. Maybe pretending is how you get brave, I don’t know.”

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

“To place nothing—nothing—above the verdict of my own mind.”

― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

“Believe to the end, even if all men went astray and you were left the only one faithful; bring your offering even then and praise God in your loneliness.”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

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