“The tourist was the great conservative who hated novelty and adored dirt.”

― Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams

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“Anything can be music, but it doesn't become music until someone wills it to be music, and the audience listening to it decides to perceive it as music.”

― Frank Zappa, The Real Frank Zappa Book

“From women's eyes this doctrine I derive.They sparkle still the right Promethean fire;They are the books, the arts, the academes,That show, contain, and nourish, all the world,Else none at all in aught proves excellent.”

― William Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost

“If you are going to impose your will on the world, you must have control over what you believe.”

― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

“Bodily passion, which has been so unjustly decried, compels its victims to display every vestige that is in them of unselfishness and generosity, and so effectively that they shine resplendent in the eyes of all beholders.”

― Marcel Proust, Swann's Way

“The world is the totality of facts, not of things.”

― Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

“The truth seems to be, however, that, when he casts his leaves forth upon the wind, the author addresses, not the many who will fling aside his volume, or never take it up, but the few who will understand him, better than most of his schoolmates...”

― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

“The power to do good is also the power to do harm; those who control the power today may not tomorrow; and, more important, what one man regards as good, another may regard as harm.”

― Milton Friedman, Capitalism and Freedom

“it is the madness of maintaining that everything is right when it is wrong.”

― Voltaire, Candide

“Trusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared.”

― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

“We want the will of the people, not the votes of the people; and to give a man a vote against his will is to make voting more valuable than the democracy it declares.”

― G. K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World

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