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“A culture that has a moral compass which always points toward the elite’s conception of good—or a society’s default conceptions of “good”—has a broken moral compass. Compasses have value because they point toward a single magnetic North, not a moving position.”
― Simone Collins, The Pragmatist’s Guide to Crafting Religion: A playbook for sculpting cultures that overcome demographic collapse & facilitate long-term human flourishing

“TF-16 returned to Pearl Harbor on May 26 in good order, with one huge exception: Admiral Halsey, the sixty-year-old commander, arrived back completely exhausted and ill. After six months of intense underway operations, culminating in the fruitless 7000-mile mission across the Pacific to the Coral Sea and back, Halsey had lost twenty pounds and had contracted a serious case of dermatitis. Nimitz took one look at him and sent him straight to the Pearl Harbor hospital. The Navy’s most experienced and highly regarded carrier force commander would sit out the Battle of Midway. The ultimate sea warrior, Halsey would watch from his hospital window as the two task forces departed Pearl Harbor for Midway.”
― Dale A. Jenkins, Diplomats & Admirals: From Failed Negotiations and Tragic Misjudgments to Powerful Leaders and Heroic Deeds, the Untold Story of the Pacific War from Pearl Harbor to Midway

“These creatures are not humanoid. They call themselves, the Fury, and the name is well deserved; they are a violent race. .”
― Steven Decker, The Balance of Time

“I sometimes think that the size of our happiness is inversely proportional to the size of our house.”
― Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram

“I don't speak, I operate a machine called language. It creaks and groans, but is mine own.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune Messiah

“[Practical intelligence is] practical in nature: that is, it's now knowledge for its own sake. It's knowledge that helps you read situations correctly and get what you want.”
― Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers: The Story of Success

“The Velveteen Rabbit By Margery Williams”
― Margery Williams Bianco, The Velveteen Rabbit: The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams Bianco [A Heartwarming Tale: The Velveteen Rabbit's Journey]

“Religious faith, is a state of mind, that leads people to believe in something, it doesn't matter what, without a whisper of doubt, or a whiff of evidence, and believe so strongly in some cases, that they are prepare to kill and die for it, without the need for further justification.”
― Richard Dawkins

“I knew you could do it, I knew you could, Libby," she mumbled into my hair, warm and smoky.

"Do what?"

"Try just a little harder.”
― Gillian Flynn, Dark Places

“The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson

“At birth, we emerge from dream soup.
At death, we sink back into dream soup.
In between soups, there is a crossing of dry land.
Life is a portage.”
― Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume

“Silflay hraka, u embleer rah!”
― Richard Adams, Watership Down

“Maybe human beings are programmed...to help one another, even to fall in love. But just because it's human nature doesn't make it bad...”
― Scott Westerfeld, Pretties

“நாம் எதிர்பார்த்திருக்கிறோமோ இல்லையோ, மாற்றம் தொடர்ந்து நிகழ்ந்து கொண்டுதான் இருக்கிறது”
― Spencer Johnson, Who Moved My Cheese? (Tamil)