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“If we ever meet again Hazel-rah", said Dandelion, as he took cover in the grass verge, "we ought to have the makings of the best story ever.”
― Richard Adams

“My Chief Rabbit has told me to stay and defend this run, and until he says otherwise, I shall stay here. --Bigwig”
― Richard Adams, Watership Down

“There's terrible evil in the world."

It comes from men," said Holly. "All other elil do what they have to do and Frith moves them as he moves us. They live on the earth and they need food. Men will never rest till they've spoiled the earth and destroyed the animals.”
― Richard Adams, Watership Down

“Who wants to hear about brave deeds when he’s ashamed of his own, and who likes an open, honest tale from someone he’s deceiving?”
― Richard Adams, Watership Down

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

“If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.”
― Albert Einstein

“I'd rather be an optimist and a fool than a pessimist and right.”
― Albert Einstein

“Genius is 1% talent and 99% percent hard work...”
― Albert Einstein

“Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.”
― Albert Einstein

“Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.”
― Albert Einstein

“Our task must be to free ourselves... by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and it's beauty.”
― Albert Einstein

“What a sad era when it is easier to smash an atom than a prejudice.”
― Albert Einstein

“The only thing that you absolutely have to know, is the location of the library.”
― Albert Einstein

“It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.”
― Albert Einstein

“Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social enviroment. Most people are incapable of forming such opinions."

(Essay to Leo Baeck, 1953)”
― Albert Einstein

“A true genius admits that he/she knows nothing.”
― Albert Einstein

“From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that we are here for the sake of each other - above all for those upon whose smile and well-being our own happiness depends, and also for the countless unknown souls with whose fate we are connected by a bond of sympathy. Many times a day I realize how much my own outer and inner life is built upon the labors of my fellow men, both living and dead, and how earnestly I must exert myself in order to give in return as much as I have received.”
― Albert Einstein

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde

“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
― William Shakespeare, As You Like It

“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
― George Eliot

“Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”
― C.S. Lewis

“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
― Ray Bradbury

“Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.”
― Carter Crocker

“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
― Albert Camus