“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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“Faith had always given us answers to all things. But it all went down the drain with Freud and Darwin. We were and still are a lost people.”

― Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles

“That is the one eternal education; to be sure enough that something is true that you dare to tell it to a child.”

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

“Self-loathing is not sorrow. Yet it is good, for it marks a step in the way home, and in the father's arms the prodigal forgets the self he abominates. Once with his father, he is to himself of no more account.”

― George MacDonald, Lilith

“Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.”

― George Orwell, 1984

“What I condemn are our system of values and the men who don't acknowledge how great, difficult, but ultimately beautiful women's share in society is.”

― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

“And he sang to them, now in the elven-tongue, now in the speech of the West, until their hearts, wounded with sweet words, overflowed, and their joy was like swords, and they passed in thought out to regions where pain and delight flow together...”

― J. R. R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

“The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.”

― Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby

“I say decisively that nothing is so marked in modern writing as the prediction of such ideals in the future combined with the ignoring of them in the past.”

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

“To be, or not to be, that is the Question”

― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“like the eagle, his own flesh as well as all space was still a cage.”

― William Faulkner, Light in August

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