“correct understanding of a matter and a misunderstanding of the same matter are not mutually exclusive.”

― Franz Kafka, The Trial

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“We have no intention of imposing our culture. But America will always stand firm for the non-negotiable demands of human dignity: the rule of law; limits on the power of the state; respect for women; private property; free speech; equal justice;...”

― George W. Bush, State of the Union Address

“God has punished the knave, and the devil has drowned the rest.”

― Voltaire, Candide

“So that, in effect, religion, which should most distinguish us from beasts, and ought most peculiarly to elevate us, as rational creatures, above brutes, is that wherein men often appear most irrational, and more senseless than beasts themselves.”

― John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

“it is always easy to put together stories about a past which nobody any longer remembers, like those about journeys to countries where nobody has ever been.”

― Marcel Proust, Finding Time Again

“courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means, at the point of highest reality.”

― C. S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

“You noticed that her eyes were what I might call hard. She has never been sheltered. She has had to take care of herself, and a young girl can't take care of herself and keep her eyes soft and gentle like—like yours, for example.”

― Jack London, Martin Eden

“I will give Mr. Freeland the credit of being the best master I ever had, till I became my own master.”

― Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

“For my part, when I enter most intimately into what I call myself, I always stumble on some particular perception or other, of heat or cold, light or shade, love or hatred, pain or pleasure. I never can catch myself at any time without a...”

― David Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature

“A poet’s mission is to make words do more work than they normally do, to make them work on more than one level.”

― JAY-Z, Decoded

“everything has to come to an end, some time.”

― L. Frank Baum, The Marvelous Land of Oz

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