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“Reason is the most naive of all superstitions.”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

“He was thinking that the young years behind him, hollow and colourful, had been lived in facile and vacillating cynicism upon the recorded emotions of men long dust.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

“... men of sense often learn from their enemies. Prudence is the best safeguard. This principle cannot be learned from a friend, but an enemy extorts it immediately. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war. And this lesson saves their children, their homes, and their properties.”
― Aristophanes, Birds

“It is of interest of times to change, Mr. Helecki. And it is the business of gentlemen to change with them.”
― Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow