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“The cause of America is in great measure the cause of all mankind.”
― Thomas Paine

“Disbelief is more resistant than faith because it is sustained by the senses.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Of Love and Other Demons

“Frightened people try to defend themselves by accusing others of their own motives.”
― Vera Caspary, Laura

“In my case, self-absorption is completely justified. I have never discovered any other subject quite so worthy of my attention.”
― Vera Caspary, Laura

“There are a lot of people who haven't got the brains for their educations.”
― Vera Caspary, Laura

“In the last analysis the great patriots were those who identified personal ambition with the welfare of their country. The traitor, as often as not, was one who, failing to recognize where the true interests of his country lay, identified his personal ambition with the less noble aspirations of his people.”
― Alec Waugh, Island in the Sun: A Story of the 1950's Set in the West