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I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center. - Kurt Vonnegut

“Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

Moo may represent an idea, but only the cow knows. - Mason Cooley

“The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them.

Benjamin Jowett

Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings. - Horace

“I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

There is no distinctly American criminal class - except Congress. - Mark Twain

“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
― Ray Bradbury

I have an instinctual distrust of conventional happy endings. - George R. R. Martin

Forgiveness does not relieve someone of responsibility for what they have done. Forgiveness does not erase accountability. It is not about turning a blind eye or even turning the other cheek. It is not about letting someone off the hook or saying it is okay to do something monstrous. Forgiveness is simply about understanding that every one of us is both inherently good and inherently flawed. Within every hopeless situation and every seemingly hopeless person lies the possibility of transformation.

— Desmond Tutu

Reason is immortal, all else mortal. - Pythagoras

“You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
Love like you'll never be hurt,
Sing like there's nobody listening,
And live like it's heaven on earth.”
― William W. Purkey

From the heart of the fountain of delight rises a jet of bitterness that tortures us among the very flowers. - Lucretius

“Reading is one form of escape. Running for your life is another.”
― Lemony Snicket

The mode by which the inevitable is reached is effort. - Felix Frankfurter

“Life is a book and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Princess

Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature. - Hosea Ballou

“Adults are always asking little kids what they want to be when they grow up ’cause they’re looking for ideas.”
― Paula Poundstone

If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law. - Henry David Thoreau

“What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.”
― John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane. - Marcus Aurelius

“It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Diary

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain

“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

It is an interesting biological fact that all of us have in our veins the exact same percentage of salt in our blood that exists in the ocean, and therefore, we have salt in our blood, in our sweat, in our tears. We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea—whether it is to sail or to watch it—we are going back from whence we came. – John F. Kennedy

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
― Martin Luther King Jr

It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one. - Voltaire

“If you are really thankful, what do you do? You share.”
― W. Clement Stone

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. - Winston Churchill

“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche