“He was conscious only of the mightiest deed of man; the complete and almost contemptuously final conquest of a world.”

― Isaac Asimov, Foundation

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“Now in many cases—too many cases—the activity of the immature human being is simply played upon to secure habits which are useful. He is trained like an animal rather than educated like a human being.”

― John Dewey, Democracy and Education

“Hesitation of any kind is a sign of mental decay in the young, of physical weakness in the old.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

“She would consider each day a miracle — which indeed it is, when you consider the number of unexpected things that could happen in each second of our fragile existences.”

― Paulo Coelho, Veronika Decides to Die

“Thus while the woman thinks of doing good offices and the man of respecting other people's rights, each sex, without any obvious unreason, can and does regard the other as radically selfish.”

― C. S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

“Ideas are more difficult to kill than people, but they can be killed, in the end.”

― Neil Gaiman, American Gods

“I hope you’re pleased with yourselves. We could all have been killed — or worse, expelled.”

― J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

“Was there ever a war where only one side bled?”

― George R. R. Martin, A Clash of Kings

“You know I hate, detest, and can't bear a lie, not because I am straighter than the rest of us, but simply because it appalls me.”

― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

“Was man, indeed, at once so powerful, so virtuous and magnificent, yet so vicious and base? He appeared at one time a mere scion of the evil principle and at another as all that can be conceived of noble and godlike.”

― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“All this he saw, for one moment breathless and intense, vivid on the morning sky; and still, as he looked, he lived; and still, as he lived, he wondered.”

― Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

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