“Who's the more foolish… the fool or the fool who follows him?”

― George Lucas, Star Wars

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“Two centuries ago England was devastated by the plague; cleanliness and common sense were enough to free us from its ravages. One century since, small-pox was almost as great a scourge; science, though working empirically, and almost in the dark,...”

― Thomas Henry Huxley, The Advance of Science in the Last Half-Century

“I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.”

― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

“Human beings are free except when humanity needs them.”

― Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game

“No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country.”

― Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

“Journeys end in lovers meeting, every wise man's son doth know.”

― William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

“On this account, nothing is more dangerous than solitude: there our imagination, always disposed to rise, taking a new flight on the wings of fancy, pictures to us a chain of beings of whom we seem the most inferior. All things appear greater...”

― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther

“A State for one man is no State at all.”

― Sophocles, Antigone

“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”

― George Santayana, The Life of Reason

“Let us be silent, — so we may hear the whisper of the gods.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Friendship

“It's the questions we can't answer that teach us the most. They teach us how to think. If you give a man an answer, all he gains is a little fact. But give him a question and he'll look for his own answers.”

― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear

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