“In the long run, a hierarchical society was only possible on a basis of poverty and ignorance.”

― George Orwell, 1984

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“Therefore it has always been said that music is the language of feeling and of passion, as words are the language of reason.”

― Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation

“The truth is that no mind is much employed upon the present; recollection and anticipation fill up almost all our moments.”

― Samuel Johnson, The History of Rasselas

“He felt himself, and did not want to be any one else. All he wanted now was to be better than before.”

― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“That’s the trouble with you young people . . . You think because you ain’t been here long, you know everything. In my life I already forget more than you ever know. ”

― Neil Gaiman, Anansi Boys

“The natural thing to do is to work—to recognize that prosperity and happiness can be obtained only through honest effort.”

― Henry Ford, My Life and Work

“The passage from the state of nature to the civil state produces a very remarkable change in man, by substituting justice for instinct in his conduct, and giving his actions the morality they had formerly lacked.”

― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract

“That's what they mean by the love that passeth understanding: that pride, that furious desire to hide that abject nakedness which we bring here with us, carry with us into operating rooms, carry stubbornly and furiously with us into the earth again.”

― William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying

“You might as well try to make yourself fly as to make yourself love.”

― Marilyn Monroe, My Story

“Call no man happy . . . until he is dead.”

― Neil Gaiman, American Gods

“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.”

― Martin Luther King, Jr.

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