“To become the spectator of one's own life . . . is to escape the suffering of life.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

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“What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?”

― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile

“I have often admonished my pupils to count ten before speaking. Were I you, Mr. Philander, I should count at least a thousand, and then maintain a discreet silence.”

― Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes

“I stared because their faces, so different, so similar, were all devastatingly, inhumanly beautiful.”

― Stephenie Meyer, Twilight

“The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right.”

― Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience

“These people are rare who know how to listen.”

― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

“The really important kind of freedom involves attention and awareness and discipline, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day.”

― David Foster Wallace, This Is Water

“I would we were all of one mind, and one mind good.”

― William Shakespeare, Cymbeline

“the history of science . . . teaches that the most we can hope for is successive improvement in our understanding, learning from our mistakes, an asymptotic approach to the Universe, but with the proviso that absolute certainty will always elude us.”

― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World

“I'm afraid that some times you'll play lonely games too. Games you can't win 'cause you'll play against you.”

― Dr. Seuss, Oh

“Yet our hearts swell with pride at the thought that America is becoming the most powerful nation on earth, and that it will eventually plant her iron foot on the necks of all other nations. Such is the logic of patriotism.”

― Emma Goldman, Anarchism and Other Essays

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