“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”

― William Shakespeare, As You Like It

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“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

“In such an economy, there is one and only one social responsibility of business—to use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits so long as it stays within the rules of the game, which is to say, engages in open...”

― Milton Friedman, Capitalism and Freedom

“You have to know the past to understand the present.”

― Carl Sagan, Cosmos

“To lose one parent, Mr. Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

“The Master has no possessions. The more he does for others, the happier he is. The more he gives to others, the wealthier he is.”

― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

“When I face the desolate impossibility of writing five hundred pages a sick sense of failure falls on me and I know I can never do it. This happens every time. Then gradually I write one page and then another. One day’s work is all I can permit...”

― John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley

“Let the boys learn that leniency comes from their toon leaders, and harshness from their commander—it will bind them better in the small, tight knots of this fabric.”

― Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game

“what did thinking ever do for me, to what great place did thinking ever bring me? I think and think and think, I've thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.”

― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud Incredibly Close

“I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live”

― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud Incredibly Close

“Now goblins are cruel, wicked, and bad-hearted. They make no beautiful things, but they make many clever ones.”

― J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

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