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“I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing.”
Herman Melville
,
“Moby-Dick”
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1851
“Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.”
Oscar Wilde
,
“The Picture of Dorian Gray”
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1890
“Even if you don’t have all the things you want, be grateful for the things you don’t have that you don’t want.”
Bob Dylan
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“Chronicles, Volume One”
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2004
“If children were brought into the world by an act of pure reason alone, would the human race continue to exist? Would not a man rather have so much sympathy with the coming generation as to spare it the burden of existence? or at any rate not take...”
Arthur Schopenhauer
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“Studies in Pessimism”
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1891
“believe in a love that is being stored up for you like and inheritance, and have faith that in this love there is a strength and a blessing so large that you can travel as far as you wish without having to step outside it.”
Rainer Maria Rilke
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“Letters to a Young Poet”
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1929
“But dost thou love Life, then do not squander Time, for that's the stuff Life is made of, as Poor Richard says.”
Benjamin Franklin
,
“The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin”
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1791
“True words aren't eloquent; eloquent words aren't true. Wise men don't need to prove their point; men who need to prove their point aren't wise.”
Lao Tzu
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“Tao Te Ching”
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4th century BC
“'patriotism,' i.e., a willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.”
Bertrand Russell
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“Sceptical Essays”
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1928
“I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I'm a human being first and foremost, and as such I'm for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.”
Malcolm X
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“The Autobiography of Malcolm X”
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1965
“No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne
,
“The Scarlet Letter”
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1850
“Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.”
Frank Zappa
,
“The Real Frank Zappa Book”
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1989
“Hell is empty, And all the devils are here.”
William Shakespeare
,
“The Tempest”
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1623
“I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.”
Jane Austen
,
“Pride and Prejudice”
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28 January 1813
“If you intend to write as truthfully as you can, your days as a member of polite society are numbered”
Stephen King
,
“On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft”
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2000
“Perhaps I write for no one. Perhaps for the same person children are writing for, when they scrawl their names in the snow.”
Margaret Atwood
,
“The Blind Assassin”
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2000
“Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts.”
Charles Dickens
,
“Great Expectations”
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1861
“it was easy enough to despise the world, but decidedly difficult to find any other habitable region.”
Edith Wharton
,
“House of Mirth”
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1905
“Nature confutes the sceptics, and reason confutes the dogmatists.”
Blaise Pascal
,
“Pensées”
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1670
“While we loved each other we didn't need words to make ourselves understood.”
Albert Camus
,
“The Plague”
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1947
“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.”
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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“Letter from a Birmingham Jail”
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16 April 1963
