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“Be alone—that is the secret of invention: be alone, that is when ideas are born. —NIKOLA TESLA, FROM HIS DIARY A”
― Graham Moore, The Last Days of Night

“I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“He broke my heart. You merely broke my life.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

“Kaltain Rompier had just turned the tide of this war.
Dorian had never been more ashamed of himself.
He should have been better. Should have seen better. They all should have.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Empire of Storms

“He had made one promise. He had not broken it yet.
To save them.
His friend, his kingdom.
He still had that.
Even here at the bottom of this dark hell, he still had that.”
― Sarah J. Maas

“Sorscha returned to her work. She was certain he'd forgotten her name the moment he left. Dorian was heir to the mightiest empire in the world, and Sorscha was the daughter of two dead immigrants from a village in Fenharrow that had been burned to ash—a village that no one would ever remember.
But that didn't stop her from loving him, as she still did, invisible and secret, ever since she'd first laid eyes on him six years ago.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Heir of Fire

“My mentality is more important than my intelligence;”
― G. Ng, The 38 Letters from J.D. Rockefeller to His Son: Perspectives, Ideology, and Wisdom

“Work is the price we pay for enjoying success. Wealth and happiness can only be obtained by hard work.”
― G. Ng, The 38 Letters from J.D. Rockefeller to His Son: Perspectives, Ideology, and Wisdom

“In my opinion, donating money is a wrong kind of help. It will make a person lose the motivation to be thrifty and diligent, and become lazy, unpredictable, and unaccountable. More importantly, when you give alms to a person, you deny his dignity, and if you deny his dignity, you take away his destiny, which is extremely immoral in my opinion. As a rich man, I have the responsibility to be a messenger for the benefit of mankind, but I cannot be the initiator of making lazy people.”
― G. Ng, The 38 Letters from J.D. Rockefeller to His Son: Perspectives, Ideology, and Wisdom