“the shameless vanity of utter fools can so strongly determine the fate of others.”

― Philip Roth, The Plot Against America

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“Go back? . . . No good at all! Go sideways? Impossible! Go forward? Only thing to do! On we go!”

― J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

“both art and virtue are always concerned with what is harder; for even the good is better when it is harder.”

― Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics

“People like you to be something, preferably what they are.”

― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“Putting people into homes, though a desirable goal, shouldn’t be our country’s primary objective. Keeping them in their homes should be the ambition.”

― Warren Buffett, The Essays of Warren Buffett

“Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“It might be that to surrender to happiness was to accept defeat, but it was a defeat better than many victories.”

― W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage

“It would be absurd if we did not understand both angels and devils, since we invented them.”

― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“if you'll believe in me, I'll believe in you.”

― Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass

“His life has much trouble and sadness, and remains far behind yours. If it were otherwise, he would never have been able to find those words.”

― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

“Unless you expect the unexpected you will never find truth, for it is hard to discover and hard to attain.”

― Heraclitus, On Nature

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