“I stand here before you not as a prophet but as a humble servant of you, the people.”

― Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom

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“Snow-crystals, the flowers of the mountain clouds, are frail, beautiful things, but terrible when flying on storm-winds in darkening, benumbing swarms or when welded together into glaciers full of deadly crevasses.”

― John Muir, Stickeen

“The music is meant to be provocative — which doesn’t mean it’s necessarily obnoxious, but it is (mostly) confrontational, and more than that, it’s dense with multiple meanings.”

― JAY-Z, Decoded

“If goodness has causes, it is not goodness; if it has effects, a reward, it is not goodness either. So goodness is outside the chain of cause and effect.”

― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness, is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.”

― William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience

“Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than with the imagination being awake?”

― Leonardo da Vinci, The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci

“with freedom come responsibilities”

― Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom

“One must be serious about something, if one wants to have any amusement in life.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

“Travelling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance

“A flow of words is a sure sign of duplicity.”

― Honoré de Balzac, Letters of Two Brides

“Then, my good friend, I said, do not use compulsion, but let early education be a sort of amusement; you will then be better able to find out the natural bent.”

― Plato, The Republic

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