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“Angels can fly because they can take themselves lightly.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

“Humility is the mother of giants. One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.”
― G.K. Chesterton, The Innocence of Father Brown

“Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference which is an elegant name for ignorance.”
― G.K. Chesterton

“I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.”
― G.K. Chesterton

“I shall have spent my life in railway stations
Nearly departing
For catastrophes,
All for love
And my heart haloed with the madness of love.
Nothing is quite so beautiful as the trains I’ve missed …”
― Jules Laforgue, Last Verses

“The reason I talk to myself is because I’m the only one whose answers I accept.”
― George Carlin

“The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
― Elie Wiesel

“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

“Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.”
― Isaac Asimov, Foundation

“Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.”
― Benjamin Spock

“Never memorize something that you can look up.”
― Albert Einstein

“Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse.”
― Thomas Szasz

“Some humans would do anything to see if it was possible to do it. If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, with a sign on it saying 'End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH', the paint wouldn't even have time to dry.”
― Terry Pratchett, Thief of Time

“There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.”
― Oscar Levant

“When you play with a gentleman, you play like a gentleman. But when you play with bastards, make sure you play like a bigger bastard. Otherwise, you will lose.”
― Sheikh Mujibur Rahman

“আমাদের বাঙ্গালিদের মধ্যে দুইটা দিক আছে। একটা হল 'আমরা মুসলমান, আর একটা হল আমরা বাঙালি।' পরশ্রীকাতরতা আর বিশ্বাসঘাতকতা আমাদের রক্তের মধ্যে রয়েছে। বোধহয় দুনিয়ার কোন ভাষায়ই এই কথাটা পাওয়া যাবেনা, 'পরশ্রীকাতরতা'। পরের শ্রী দেখে যে কাতর হয় তাকে 'পরশ্রীকাতর' বলে। ঈর্ষা, দ্বেষ সকল ভাষায়ই পাবেন,সকল জাতির মধ্যেই কিছু কিছু আছে, কিন্তু বাঙ্গালিদের মধ্যে আছে পরশ্রীকাতরতা। ভাই, ভাইয়ের উন্নতি দেখলে খুশি হয়না। এই জন্যই বাঙালি জাতির সকল রকম গুণ থাকা সত্ত্বেও জীবনভর অন্যের অত্যাচার সহ্য করতে হয়েছে।”
― Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, অসমাপ্ত আত্মজীবনী