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“Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well- warmed, and well-fed.”
― Herman Melville

“An earthly kingdom cannot exist without inequality of persons. Some must be free, some serfs, some rulers, some subjects”
― Martin Luther

“A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
― Elbert Hubbard

“Hold fast to dreams,
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird,
That cannot fly.”
― Langston Hughes

“I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.”
― Maya Angelou

“The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.”
― John Locke

“Great minds are always feared by lesser minds.”
― Dan Brown, The Lost Symbol

“Confidence is ignorance. If you're feeling cocky, it's because there's something you don't know.”
― Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl

“The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.”
― Daniel J. Boorstin

“If you knew what was going to happen, if you knew everything that was going to happen next—if you knew in advance the consequences of your own actions—you'd be doomed. You'd be ruined as God. You'd be a stone. You'd never eat or drink or laugh or get out of bed in the morning. You'd never love anyone, ever again. You'd never dare to.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

“People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care”
― Theodore Roosevelt

“We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Diary