“His ear heard more than was said to him, and his slow speech had overtones not of thought, but of understanding beyond thought.”

― John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men

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“Neither of these speculations is unreasonable, and they are mentioned to show how little men control their own destiny.”

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

“Goddam money. It always ends up making you blue as hell.”

― J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“Without such love, one's dreams would have no meaning.”

― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“It's like there was a fellow in every man that's done a-past the sanity or the insanity, that watches the sane and the insane doings of that man with the same horror and the same astonishment.”

― William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying

“Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition; and where all the superior ranks of people were secured from it, the inferior ranks could not be much exposed to it.”

― Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations

“Business is a noble vocation, directed to producing wealth and improving our world. It can be a fruitful source of prosperity for the areas in which it operates, especially if it sees the creation of jobs as an essential part of its service to...”

― Pope Francis, Laudato si'

“A wild angel had appeared to him, the angel of mortal youth and beauty, an envoy from the fair courts of life, to throw open before him in an instant of ecstasy the gates of all the ways of error and glory.”

― James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

“What is hardest to accept about the passage of time is that the people who once mattered the most to us are wrapped up in parentheses.”

― John Irving, The Cider House Rules

“Sin is an exacting despot who can be vanquished by no created power, but by the sovereign power of Jesus Christ alone.”

― Martin Luther, Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians

“As far as rearing children goes, the basic idea I try to keep in mind is that a child is a person. Just because they happen to be a little shorter than you doesn't mean they are dumber than you.”

― Frank Zappa, The Real Frank Zappa Book

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