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Oscar Wilde
“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
Oscar Wilde

Plato
“Only the dead have seen the end of war.”
Plato

Elizabeth Gilbert
“That’s the thing about a human life-there’s no control group, no way to ever know how any of us would have turned out if any variables had been changed.”
Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything

Timothy Zahn
“Without trust, there can be no genuine peace. Neither in politics, nor in the quiet individuality of the heart and spirit.”
Timothy Zahn, Star Wars: Vision of the Future

The Seven Social Sins are: Wealth without work. Pleasure without conscience. Knowledge without character. Commerce
“The Seven Social Sins are:

Wealth without work.
Pleasure without conscience.
Knowledge without character.
Commerce without morality.
Science without humanity.
Worship without sacrifice.
Politics without principle.


From a sermon given by Frederick Lewis Donaldson in Westminster Abbey, London, on March 20, 1925.”
Frederick Lewis Donaldson

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