Elizebeth Kanoa

“It has been the will of Heaven," the essay began, "that we should be thrown into existence at a period when the greatest philosophers and lawgivers of antiquity would have wished to live...

a period when a coincidence of circumstances without example has afforded to thirteen colonies at once an opportunity of beginning government anew from the foundation and building as they choose. How few of the human race have ever had the opportunity of choosing a system of government for themselves and their children? How few have ever had anything more of choice in government than in climate?”
― David McCullough, John Adams

“Even if one is neither vain nor self-obsessed, it is so extraordinary to be oneself - exactly oneself and no one else - and so unique, that it seems natural that one should also be unique for someone else.”
― Simone de Beauvoir, The Woman Destroyed

“My genius is not so frail a thing that it cowers from the dirty fingers of newspapernen.”
― Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale

“life is short and information endless: nobody has time for everything”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World and Brave New World Revisited