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“One way to remember who you are is to remember who your heroes are.”
― Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs

“Details matter, it's worth waiting to get it right.”
― Steve Jobs

“Before Man made us citizens, great Nature made us men.”
― James Rusell Lowell

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“His answer to every problem, every setback was “I will work harder!” —which he had adopted as his personal motto.”
― George Orwell, Animal Farm

“Love in dreams is greedy for immediate action, rapidly performed and in the sight of all. Men will even give their lives if only the ordeal does not last long but is soon over, with all looking on and applauding as though on the stage. But active love is labor and fortitude, and for some people too, perhaps, a complete science.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“You know, dear boy, there was an old sinner in the eighteenth century who declared that, if there were no God, he would have to be invented. S'il n'existait pas Dieu, il faudrait l'inventer. And man has actually invented God. And what's strange, what would be marvellous, is not that God should really exist; the marvel is that such an idea, the idea of the necessity of God, could enter the head of such a savage, vicious beast as man. So holy it is, so touching, so wise and so great a credit it does to man. As for me, I've long resolved not to think whether man created God or God man.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“Every time you see a mirror you go into a trance, like. Like you was looking at some gorgeous piece of butt. I mean, my God, don’t you ever get tired?”
― Truman Capote, In Cold Blood

“The boast of heraldry, the pomp of pow’r,
And all that beauty, all that wealth e’er gave
Awaits alike the inevitable hour:
The paths of glory lead but to the grave.”
― Thomas Gray

“No doubt alcohol, tobacco, and so forth, are things that a saint must avoid; but sainthood is also a thing that human beings must avoid.”
― George Orwell

“All saints should be judged guilty until proven innocent.”
― George Orwell

“Populus me sibilat, at mihi plaudo
Ipse domi stimul ac nummos contemplar in arca.
(The public hiss at me, but I cheer myself when in my own house I contemplate the coins in my strong-box.)”
― Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet

“He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.”
― Joseph Heller, Catch-22

“You're inches away from death every time you go on a mission. How much older can you be at your age? A half minute before that you were stepping into high school, and an unhooked brassiere was as close as you ever hoped to get to Paradise. Only a fifth of a second before that you were a small kid with a ten-week summer vacation that lasted a hundred thousand years and still ended too soon. Zip! They go rocketing by so fast. How the hell else are you ever going to slow down?”
― Joseph Heller, Catch-22

“They couldn’t dominate Death inside the hospital, but they certainly made her behave. They had taught her manners. They couldn’t keep Death out, but while she was in she had to act like a lady.”
― Joseph Heller, Catch-22

“The country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them.”
― Joseph Heller, Catch-22

“Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.”
― Mae West

“Would you like to see your country lose?' Major Major asked.
'We won't lose. We've got more men, more money and more material. There are ten million men in uniform who could replace me. Some people are getting killed and a lot more are making money and having fun. Let somebody else get killed.'
'But suppose everybody on our side felt that way.'
'Then I'd certainly be a damned fool to feel any other way. Wouldn't I?”
― Joseph Heller, Catch-22

“Aurobindo Ghose writes somewhere of the present as 'the pure and virgin moment,' that razor's edge of time and existence which divides the past from the future, and is, and yet, instantaneously is not. The phrase is attractive and yet what does it mean? The virgin moment emerging from the veil of the future in all its naked purity, coming into contact with us, and immediately becoming the soiled and stale past. Is it we that soil it and violate it? Or is the moment not so virgin after all, for it is bound up with all the harlotry of the past?”
― Jawaharlal Nehru, An Autobiography

“There is only one thing that remains to us that cannot be taken away: to act with courage and dignity and to stick to the ideals that have given meaning to life; but that is not the politician's way.”
― Jawaharlal Nehru, An Autobiography

“you threw a stone into a gutter it would only spurt filth in your face.”
― R.K. Narayan, Malgudi Days

“Reality is in the hand of the masturbator.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

“What was required in a
Party member was an outlook similar to that of the ancient
Hebrew who knew, without knowing much else, that all nations
other than his own worshipped ‘false gods’. He did
not need to know that these gods were called Baal, Osiris,
Moloch, Ashtaroth, and the like: probably the less he knew
about them the better for his orthodoxy. He knew Jehovah
and the commandments of Jehovah: he knew, therefore,
that all gods with other names or other attributes were false
gods.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“It was a political act.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“Keep your thoughts positive because your thought become YOUR WORDS.
Keep your words positive because your words become YOUR BEHAVIOR
Keep your behavior positive because your behavior becomes YOUR HABITS
Keep your habits positive because your habits become YOUR VALUES
Keep your values positive because your values become YOUR DESTINY”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

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

“He was going to live forever, or die in the attempt.”
― Joseph Heller, Catch-22

“For let the gods so speed me as I love
The name of honor more than I fear death.”
― William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar