“There are two lives, the natural and the spiritual, and we must lose the one before we can participate in the other.”

― William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience

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“why is it always the innocents who suffer most, when you high lords play your game of thrones?”

― George R. R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“if you've been hated you've also been loved.”

― Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady

“I am of the opinion that the national laws governing the choice of members of the Congress should be extended to include appropriate representation of the respective parties at the ballot box ant equality of representation on the various...”

― Calvin Coolidge, State of the Union Address

“Nothing is more necessary to the culture of the higher sciences, or of the more elevated departments of science, than meditation; and nothing is less suited to meditation than the structure of democratic society.”

― Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

“the best contacts are when one knows the obstacles and still wants to preserve a relation.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night

“Nevertheless, so profound is our ignorance, and so high our presumption, that we marvel when we hear of the extinction of an organic being; and as we do not see the cause, we invoke cataclysms to desolate the world, or invent laws on the duration...”

― Charles Darwin, On The Origin of Species

“No matter what he does, every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the world. And normally he doesn't know it.”

― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“Isn't a gram of observation worth a ton of theory?”

― Carl Sagan, Contact

“The truth is you can be orphaned again and again and again. The truth is you will be. And the secret is, this will hurt less and less each time until you can’t feel a thing.”

― Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor

“Against self-slaughter there is a prohibition so divine that cravens my weak hand.”

― William Shakespeare, Cymbeline

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