“In every ordered State, wealth is a sacred thing: in democracies it is the only sacred thing.”

― Anatole France, Penguin Island

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“if we've been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We're no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It's simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we've been...”

― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World

“To talk in public, to think in solitude, to read and to hear, to inquire and answer inquiries, is the business of a scholar.”

― Samuel Johnson, The History of Rasselas

“A blade of grass is a commonplace on Earth; it would be a miracle on Mars. Our descendants on Mars will know the value of a patch of green. And if a blade of grass is priceless, what is the value of a human being?”

― Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot

“I almost wish I hadn't gone down that rabbit-hole—and yet—and yet—it's rather curious, you know, this sort of life!”

― Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

“After all that has been said of the levity and inconstancy of human nature, it appears evidently from experience, that man is, of all sorts of luggage, the most difficult to be transported.”

― Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations

“Every successful man is more or less a selfish man.”

― Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure

“Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“I'm breaking my attachment to physical power and possessions . . . because only through destroying myself can I discover the greater power of my spirit.”

― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“sometimes I fear that this new generation, educated or hypereducated as it is, will lack those qualities of humanity, of hospitality, of kindly humour which belonged to an older day.”

― James Joyce, Dubliners

“Nationalism is power-hunger tempered by self-deception.”

― George Orwell, Notes on Nationalism

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