“The past is consumed in the present and the present is living only because it brings forth the future.”

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

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“The Bible is not an end in itself, but a means to bring men to an intimate and satisfying knowledge of God, that they may enter into Him, that they may delight in His Presence, may taste and know the inner sweetness of the very God Himself in the...”

― A. W. Tozer, The Pursuit of God

“The chief foundations of all states, new as well as old or composite, are good laws and good arms; and as there cannot be good laws where the state is not well armed, it follows that where they are well armed they have good laws.”

― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

“Coward dogs most spend their mouths when what they seem to threaten runs far before them.”

― William Shakespeare, Henry V

“complacency or self-congratulation can imperil our security as much as the weapons of tyranny. A moment of pause is not a promise of peace.”

― John F. Kennedy, State of the Union Address

“There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method.”

― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

“The man who attempts to live for others is a dependent.”

― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

“let us seek the love of simple, ignorant people. Their ignorance is better than all our knowledge. Let us be silent, content in our little corner, meek and gentle like them. That is the wisdom of life.”

― W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence

“But isn’t it also that on some fundamental level we find it difficult to understand that other people are human beings in the same way that we are? We idealize them as gods or dismiss them as animals.”

― John Green, Paper Towns

“The religion we have is our all-important instrument towards that end. With it we have brought the Four Kingdoms under our control, even at the moment when they would have crushed us. It is the most potent device known with which to control men...”

― Isaac Asimov, Foundation

“I'll be as silent as the grave.”

― Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island

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