“As men's prayers are a disease of the will, so are their creeds a disease of the intellect.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance

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“When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.”

“It is only a novel . . . or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and...”

― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“Despotism may govern without faith, but liberty cannot.”

― Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

“That was what you did. You died. You did not know what it was about. You never had time to learn. They threw you in and told you the rules and the first time they caught you off base they killed you.”

― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

“We discern a grand force in the lover which he lacks whilst a free man; but there is a breadth of vision in the free man which in the lover we vainly seek. Where there is much bias there must be some narrowness, and love, though added emotion, is...”

― Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd

“People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order, so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say.”

― Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle

“Be anything but a coward, a pretender, an emotional crook, a whore: I'd rather have cancer than a dishonest heart.”

― Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany's

“But courtiers don’t take wagers against the king’s skill. There is the deadly danger of winning.”

― Isaac Asimov, Foundation

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

― Neil Gaiman, American Gods

“He didn’t realize that love as powerful as your mother’s for you leaves its own mark. Not a scar, no visible sign... to have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever.”

― J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

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