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“To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them.”
―Arthur Schopenhauer

“I thought they'd get one of us, but Jack, after all he's been through, never worried about it I thought it would be me.”
―Robert Kennedy

“John T. Unger came from a family that had been well known in Hades — a small town on the Mississippi River — for several generations.”
―F. Scott Fitzgerald

Source/Notes:
The Diamond As Big As The Ritz - Tales of the Jazz Age (1922)

“The understanding, like the eye, whilst it makes us see and perceive all things, takes no notice of itself; and it requires art and pains to set it at a distance and make it its own subject.”
―John Locke

“If the principle is, Let's not get lethal substances out to the public, the first one you'd go after is tobacco. The next one you'd go after is alcohol. Way down the list you'd get to cocaine, and sort of invisibly low you'd get to marijuana.”
―Noam Chomsky

Source/Notes:
Dialogue with trade unionists, February 2, 1999 [153] - On drugs

“Depend upon it, after all, Thomas, Literature is the most noble of professions. In fact, it is about the only one fit for a man. For my own part, there is no seducing me from the path.”
―Edgar Allan Poe

Source/Notes:
Letter to Frederick W. Thomas (1849-02-14).

“Democratical States must always feel before they can see: it is this that makes their Governments slow, but the people will be right at last.”
―George Washington

Source/Notes:
Letter to the Marquis de Lafayette (25 July 1785).

“Every creature is a word of God.”
―Meister Eckhart

“Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.”
―Jules Verne

“The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other.”
―Honore de Balzac

Source/Notes:
Letters of Two Brides (2011 edition), The Floating Press - ISBN: 9781775453550

“That mysterious independent variable of political calculation, Public Opinion.”
―Thomas Henry Huxley

Source/Notes:
Universities, Actual and Ideal (1874).

“I really haven't had that exciting of a life. There are a lot of things I wish I would have done, instead of just sitting around and complaining about having a boring life. So I pretty much like to make it up. I'd rather tell a story about somebody else.”
―Kurt Cobain

“I can do everything with ease on the stage, whereas in real life I feel too big and clumsy. So I didn't choose acting. It chose me.”
―Ingrid Bergman

“There is two kinds of music, the good, and the bad. I play the good kind.”
―Louis Armstrong

“Hell, covering all with its gloomy vapors, has cast shadows on even the holiest eyes.”
―Jean Racine

“The words of truth are always paradoxical.”
―Lao Tzu

“The taxpayer - that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination.”
―Ronald Reagan

“By reading a lot of novels in a variety of genres, and asking questions, it's possible to learn how things are done - the mechanics of writing, so to speak - and which genres and authors excel in various areas.”
―Nicholas Sparks

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— Jim Morrison

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