“The truth is not wonderful enough to suit the newspapers; so they enlarge upon it and invent ridiculous embellishments.”

― Helen Keller, The Story of My Life

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“All that destroys social unity is worthless; all institutions that set man in contradiction to himself are worthless.”

― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract

“Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.”

― Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Stupidity and wisdom meet in the same centre of sentiment and resolution, in the suffering of human accidents.”

― Michel de Montaigne, The Essays of Michel de Montaigne

“I think the difference between a lie and a story is that a story utilizes the trappings and appearance of truth for the interest of the listener as well as of the teller. A story has in it neither gain nor loss. But a lie is a device for profit...”

― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“If I stayed here, something inside me would be lost forever—something I couldn’t afford to lose. It was like a vague dream, a burning, unfulfilled desire. The kind of dream people have only when they’re seventeen.”

― Haruki Murakami, South of the Border

“But I wrote because I couldn’t stop. It was a release, a mental exercise, a way of keeping sane.”

― JAY-Z, Decoded

“Just as eating against one's will is injurious to health, so study without a liking for it spoils the memory, and it retains nothing it takes in.”

― Leonardo da Vinci, The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci

“The Light of humane minds is Perspicuous Words, but by exact definitions first snuffed, and purged from ambiguity; Reason is the Pace; Encrease of Science, the Way; and the Benefit of mankind, the End.”

― Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

“The contagion of such a unanimous fear was inevitable.”

― H. G. Wells, The War of the Worlds

“But this priviledge, is allayed by another; and that is, by the priviledge of Absurdity; to which no living creature is subject, but man onely.”

― Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

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