“What has been the effect of coercion? To make one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites.”

― Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia

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“The art of our necessities is strange, that can make vile things precious.”

― William Shakespeare, King Lear

“Suddenly he knew joy and sorrow felted into one fabric. Courage and fear were one thing too.”

― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“All this will not be finished in the first one hundred days. Nor will it be finished in the first one thousand days... nor in the life of this administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin.”

― John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address

“success can only be one ingredient in happiness, and is too dearly purchased if all the other ingredients have been sacrificed to obtain it.”

― Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

“True words aren't eloquent; eloquent words aren't true. Wise men don't need to prove their point; men who need to prove their point aren't wise.”

― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

“Her philosophy is carpe diem for herself and laissez faire for others.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

“A sad soul can kill you quicker, far quicker, than a germ.”

― John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley

“We were kids without fathers, so we found our fathers on wax and on the streets and in history, and in a way, that was a gift: We got to pick and choose the ancestors who would inspire the world we were going to make for ourselves.”

― JAY-Z, Decoded

“It was as if she had been made afresh, out of new elements, and must perforce be permitted to live her own life, and be a law unto herself, without her eccentricities being reckoned to her for a crime.”

― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

“I wanted all thingsTo seem to make some sense,So we all could be happy, yes,Instead of tense.And I made up liesSo that they all fit nice,And I made this sad worldA par-a-dise.”

― Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle

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