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“When this world which reason has created is carried off at last it will take reason with it. And it will be a long time coming back.”
― Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris

“[T]he time your friends need you is when they’re wrong, Jean Louise. They don’t need you when they’re right”
― Harper Lee, Go Set a Watchman

“Love work, and keep doing more. Don’t wait for your parents to lie to you and tell you they have money buried.”
― Tracy Kidder, Strength in What Remains: A Journey of Remembrance and Forgiveness

“The point is that as soon as fear, hatred, jealousy and power worship are involved, the sense of reality becomes unhinged. And, as I have pointed out already, the sense of right and wrong becomes unhinged also. There is no crime, absolutely none, that cannot be condoned when "our" side commits it. Even if one does not deny that the crime has happened, even if one knows that it is exactly the same crime as one has condemned in some other case, even if one admits in an intellectual sense that it is unjustified -- still one cannot feel that it is wrong. Loyalty is involved, and so pity ceases to function.”
― George Orwell, Notes on Nationalism