“I felt that 15,000 men on the 8th would be more effective than 50,000 a month later.”

― Ulysses S. Grant, Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant

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“She said she knew we were safe with you, and always would be, because once, when she asked you to, you'd given up the thing you most wanted.”

― Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

“Sir William said he never spoke of 'madness'; he called it not having a sense of proportion.”

― Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway

“Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.”

― Milton Friedman, Capitalism and Freedom

“A craven can be as brave as any man, when there is nothing to fear. And we all do our duty, when there is no cost to it. How easy it seems then, to walk the path of honor. Yet soon or late in every man’s life comes a day when it is not easy, a...”

― George R. R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them—especially as against the rivals, other children, and first and foremost as against their brothers and sisters.”

― Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams

“There you have the effect of segregation. Man is born for life in society; separate him, isolate him, and his ideas will go to pieces, his character will go sour, a hundred ridiculous affections will spring up in his heart, extravagant notions...”

― Denis Diderot, The Nun

“I think Open Source is the right thing to do the same way I believe science is better than alchemy.”

― Linus Torvalds,

“The earth is a great piece of stupidity.”

― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“Go to your bosom;Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know”

― William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure

“And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.”

― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

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