"The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary. Men alone are quite capable of every wickedness." - Joseph Conrad
"All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle." - Emerson"The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you will see." - Winston Churchill
"When you look long into an abyss, the abyss looks into you." - Nietzsche
"Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself." - Faulkner
"Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited; imagination encircles the world." - Einstein
"Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble." - Samuel Johnson
"Don't forget that I cannot see myself. My role is limited to being the one who looks in the mirror." - Jacques Rigaut
"Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them." - Rose Kennedy
"When a good man is hurt, all who would be called good must suffer with him." - Euripides
"The irrationality of a thing is not an argument against its existence, rather a condition of it." - Nietzsche
"Nothing is so common as the wish to be remarkable." - Shakespeare
"When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." - Arther Conan Doyle
"There is no hunting like the hunting of man and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never really care for anything else.” - Hemingway
"The healthy man does not torture others. Generally, it is the tortured who turn into torturers.” - Carl Jung
"A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses; it is an idea that possesses the mind." - Robert Oxton Bolt
"The question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or the others crazy?" - Albert Einstein
"Unfortunately, a super abundance of dreams is paid for by a growing potential for nightmares." - Peter Ustinov
"Ideology separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together."- Eugene Ionesco
"The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone." - Harriett Beecher Stowe
"Evil is unspectacular, and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our table." - W. H. Auden
"Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done." - Elizabeth Barrett Browning
"What is food to one, is to others bitter poison." - Lucretius
"Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves." - Confucius
"What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal." - Albert Pine
"It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us." - Norman Maclean
"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe." - Nietzsche
"Better to be violent if there's violence in our hearts than to put on the cloak of non-violence to cover impotence." - Gandhi
"I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary. The evil it does is permanent." - Gandhi
"Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society must take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness." - W. H. Auden
"A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you, the less you know." - Diane Arbus
"An American has no sense of privacy. He does not know what it means. There is no such thing in the country." - Bernard Shaw
"Other things may change us, but we start and end with family." - Anthony Brandt
"We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves." - Francois de la Rochefoucauld
"There are some that only employ words for the purpose of disguising their thoughts." - Voltaire
"Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods." - Albert Einstein
"In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." - George Orwell
"No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one." - Elbert Hubbard
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