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“We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Diary

“I am opposing a social order in which it is possible for one man who does absolutely nothing that is useful to amass a fortune of hundreds of millions of dollars, while millions of men and women who work all the days of their lives secure barely enough for a wretched existence.”
― Eugene Debs

“I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

“Society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.”
― Anonymous Greek Proverb

“Unfortunately life rarely mimics art. If life is like a movie, it doesn’t end with a climactic scene; more often the celluloid gets grainy and frayed and the actors forget their lines. If life is like a concert, it doesn’t end in a crescendo; more often the instruments go out of tune, the musicians wander off, and the music peters out.”
― Chris Impey, How It Ends: From You to the Universe

“Americans have reached a point where ignorance, especially of anything related to public policy, is an actual virtue. To reject the advice of experts is to assert autonomy, a way for Americans to insulate their increasingly fragile egos from ever being told they’re wrong about anything. It is a new Declaration of Independence: no longer do we hold these truths to be self-evident, we hold all truths to be self-evident, even the ones that aren’t true.”
― Tom Nichols, The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why It Matters

“You submit to tyranny when you renounce the difference between what you want to hear and what is actually the case. This renunciation of reality can feel natural and pleasant, but the result is your demise as an individual—and thus the collapse of any political system that depends upon individualism.”
― Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century

“Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves.”
― James Allen, As a Man Thinketh

“What’s the difference between a human being and an animal?” “Intelligence, I suppose.” Audrey looked at me for guidance. “We’re smarter. Wouldn’t you agree?” I nodded. “As long as we’re writing the tests.”
― Gene Wolfe, Interlibrary Loan

“We think about mortality so little, these days, except to flail hysterically at it with trendy forms of exercise and high-fiber cereals and nicotine patches.”
― Tana French, In the Woods