“In Washington the appearance of power is therefore almost as important as the reality of it; in fact, the appearance is frequently its essential reality.”

― Henry Kissinger, White House Years

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“Oh, the pain. The pain. It always rains. In my soul.”

― John Green, Paper Towns

“Every citizen, it is said, must have equality, and therefore in a democracy the poor have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.”

― Aristotle, Politics

“It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.”

― Helen Keller, The Story of My Life

“I want leisure to read—an immense amount.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Flappers and Philosophers

“No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, could ever compel the soul of a man to believe or to disbelieve: it is his own indefeasible light, that judgment of his; he will reign, and believe there, by the grace of God alone!”

― Thomas Carlyle, On Heroes

“Blessedness is not the reward of virtue, but virtue itself; neither do we rejoice therein, because we control our lusts, but, contrariwise, because we rejoice therein, we are able to control our lusts.”

― Baruch Spinoza, Ethics

“Are there not some places where we seem to breathe sadness?—why, we cannot tell. It is a chain of recollections—an idea which carries you back to other times, to other places—which, very likely, have no connection with the present time and...”

― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

“Memory . . . is the diary that we all carry about with us.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

“Always to be right, always to trample forward, and never to doubt, are not these the great qualities with which dullness takes the lead in the world?”

― William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair

“This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit...”

― Martin Luther King, Jr.

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