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“Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking.”
― H.L. Mencken, A Mencken Chrestomathy

“You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.”
― H. L. Mencken

“Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.”
― Victor Hugo, Ninety-Three

“All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.”
― Edgar Allen Poe

“Villains!' I shrieked. 'Dissemble no more! I admit the deed! Tear up the planks! Here, here! It is the beating of his hideous heart!”
― Edgar Allan Poe, The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Writings

“Never give advice unless you have walked the walk, because anybody can talk the talk.”
― Valencia Mackie

“The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.”
― Ronald Reagan

“He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader.”
― Aristotle

“It's like giving a glass of ice water to somebody in hell" -- about iTunes on Windows computers”
― Steve Jobs

“Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.”
― Steve Jobs