“If you do something too good, then, after a while, if you don't watch it, you start showing off. And then you're not as good any more.”
― The Catcher in the Rye
― The Catcher in the Rye
“They're certainly entitled to think that, and they're entitled to full respect for their opinions... but before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.”
― To Kill a Mockingbird
― To Kill a Mockingbird
“True or false, that which is said of men often occupies as important a place in their lives, and above all in their destinies, as that which they do.”
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“It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own self-interest. We address ourselves not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our own necessities, but of their advantages”
― An Inquiry into the Nature & Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Vol 1
― An Inquiry into the Nature & Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Vol 1
“Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one.”
― 1984
― 1984
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