“The United States is not reliable, she would give you a little something, but not much. How could imperialism give you a full meal?”

― Henry Kissinger, On China

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“Marriage transforms a distraction into a support, the power of which should be, and happily often is, in direct proportion to the degree of imbecility it supplants.”

― Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd

“To weep is to make less the depth of grief.”

― William Shakespeare, Henry VI

“Either things are, and appear so to be; or else they are not, and do not appear to be; or else they are, and do not appear to be; or else they are not, and yet appear to be.”

― Epictetus, Discourses

“Fanatical ethnic or religious or national chauvinisms are a little difficult to maintain when we see our planet as a fragile blue crescent fading to become an inconspicuous point of light against the bastion and citadel of the stars.”

― Carl Sagan, Cosmos

“We have grown literally afraid to be poor. We despise any one who elects to be poor in order to simplify and save his inner life. If he does not join the general scramble and pant with the money-making street, we deem him spiritless and lacking...”

― William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience

“If you can look into the seeds of time,And say which grain will grow and which will not,Speak then to me, who neither beg nor fearYour favours nor your hate.”

― William Shakespeare, Macbeth

“It is impossible to experience one’s own death objectively and still carry a tune.”

― Woody Allen, Getting Even

“He made me think of home—perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.”

― James Baldwin, Giovanni's Room

“Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.”

― George Eliot, Middlemarch

“Her future, she thought, was likely to be worse than her past, for after her years of contented renunciation, she had slipped back into desire and longing”

― George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss

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