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“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“Full circle. A new terror born in death, a new superstition entering the unassailable fortress of forever. I am legend.”
― Richard Matheson, I Am Legend

“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“Do you want to know the world? Then look at it closely. Do you want to like it? Then look at it from afar.”
― Ion Luca Caragiale

“We improve ourselves by victory over our self. There must be contests, and you must win.”
― Edward Gibbon

“If you have two friends in your lifetime, you're lucky. If you have one good friend, you're more than lucky.”
― S.E. Hinton

“Very few of us are what we seem.”
― Agatha Christie, The Man in the Mist

“Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home - so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any maps of the world. Yet they are the world of the individual person; the neighborhood he lives in; the school or college he attends; the factory, farm, or office where he works. Such are the places where every man, woman, and child seeks equal justice, equal opportunity, equal dignity without discrimination. Unless these rights have meaning there, they have little meaning anywhere. Without concerted citizen action to uphold them close to home, we shall look in vain for progress in the larger world.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

“A good book is an event in my life.”
― Stendhal, The Red and the Black

“One other thing struck me. The margin between life and death was so very slim in Darfur, where people eked out a harsh semi-desert existence. The ability to cope was that much more limited than it had been in, say, Rwanda, a relatively fertile tropical country. Consequently, the ability to destroy people’s means of livelihood was that much greater.”
― Mukesh Kapila, Against a Tide of Evil