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No single man makes history. History cannot be seen, just as one cannot see grass growing. Wars and revolutions, kings and Robespierres, are history's organic agents, its yeast. But revolutions are made by fanatical men of action with one-track mind, geniuses in their ability to confine themselves to a limited field. They overturn the old order in a few hours or days, the whole upheaval takes a few weeks or at most years, but the fanatical spirit that inspired the upheavals is worshiped for decades thereafter, for centuries. ↗

— Boris Pasternak

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It is absurd to hold that a man should be ashamed of an inability to defend himself with his limbs, but not ashamed of an inability to defend himself with speech and reason; for the use of rational speech is more distinctive of a human being than the use of his limbs. ↗

— Aristotle

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It saddens me beyond my tears that love is lost within the fears. ↗

— Lynn C. Tolson

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Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society. ↗

— James Baldwin

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Sometimes we choose the road we follow. And sometimes the road chooses us. ↗

— Richie Singh

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Everyone loves something for nothing...even if it costs everything. ↗

— Stephen King

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Savor life: don't just breathe it in; exhale the moment to intake the next. ↗

— KC Rhoads

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For, thought Ahab, while even the highest earthly felicities ever have a certain unsignifying pettiness lurking in them, but, at bottom, all heartwoes, a mystic significance, and, in some men, an archangelic grandeur; so do their diligent tracings-out not blue the obvious deduction. To trail the genealogies of these high mortal miseries, carries us at last among the sourceless primogenitures of the gods; so that, in the face of all the glad, hay-making suns, and the softcymballing, round the harvest-moons, we must needs give in to this: that the gods themselves are not for ever glad. The ineffaceable, sad birth-mark in the brow of man, is but the stamp of sorrow in the signers. ↗

— Herman Melville

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You don't need to know what you want. You only need to know what you don't want... ↗

— Julia Heywood

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There are no endings, only beginnings that have been reborn. ↗

— D. Byron Patterson

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