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• It is this idea 'decency' should be attached to wealth -and 'indecency'' to poverty - that forms the core of one strand of skeptical complaint against the modern status-ideal. Why should failure to make money be taken as a sign of an unconditionally flawed human being rather than of a fiasco in one particular area if the far larger, more multifaceted, project of leading a good life? Why should both wealth and poverty be read as the predominant guides to an individual's morals ?

  Alain de Botton

  Good Life, Taken, Ideas

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• You asked for a loving God: you have one... The consuming fire Himself, the Love that made the worlds, persistent as the artist's love for his work and despotic as a man's love for a dog, provident and venerable as a father's love for a child, jealous, inexorable, exacting as love between the sexes. How this should be, I do not know: it passes reason to explain why any creatures, not to say creatures such as we, should have a value so prodigious in their Creator's eyes.

  C. S. Lewis

  Dog, Sex, Children

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• Equality is not the empirical claim that all groups of humans are interchangeable; it is the moral principle that individuals should not be judged or constrained by the average properties of their group.

  Steven Pinker

  Average, Principles, Groups

  Steven Pinker (2003). “The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature”, p.449, Penguin

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• Chess teaches foresight, by having to plan ahead; vigilance, by having to keep watch over the whole chess board; caution, by having to restrain ourselves from making hasty moves; and finally, we learn from chess the greatest maxim in life - that even when everything seems to be going badly for us we should not lose heart, but always hoping for a change for the better, steadfastly continue searching for the solutions to our problems.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Moving, Heart, Watches

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• My mom's coming home soon," I said. "We should go to your place." Patch ran a hand across the shadow of stubble along his jaw. "I have rules about who I take there." I was getting really tired of that answer. "If you showed me, you'd have to kill me?" I guessed, fighting the urge to feel irritated. "Once I'm inside, I can never leave?" Patch studied me a moment. Then he reached into his pocket, twisted a key off his key chain, and slipped it into the front pocket of my pajama top. "Once you've gone inside, you have to keep coming back.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Mom, Home, Tired

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.539, Simon and Schuster

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• The great question which, in all ages, has disturbed mankind, and brought on them the greatest part of their mischiefs ... has been, not whether be power in the world, nor whence it came, but who should have it.

  John Locke

  Should Have, Age, World

  John Locke (1821). “Two treatises of government”, p.119

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• Few things are sadder than encountering a person who knows exactly what he should do, yet cannot muster enough energy to do it. "He who desires but acts not," wrote Blake with his accustomed vigor, "Breeds pestilence.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Desire, Energy, Vigor

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2001). “Flow: the psychology of optimal experience”

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• the wise man should always follow the roads that have been trodden by the great, and imitate those who have most excelled, so that if he cannot reach their perfection, he may at least acquire something of its savour.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Wise, Men, Perfection

  Niccolo Machiavelli, Sir Thomas More, Sir (2010). “Machiavelli, More & Luther”, p.20, Cosimo, Inc.

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• He and I have this... personality conflict. Namely, I think he should get a new one.

  Scott Westerfeld

  Thinking, Personality, Conflict

  Scott Westerfeld (2011). “The Secret Hour: Number 1 in series”, p.56, Hachette UK

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• All children should be loved, protected, nurtured --emotionally and intellectually-- respected, and never, under any circumstances, underestimated.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Children, Circumstances, Protected

  Augusten Burroughs (2012). “This Is How: Proven Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude & More. For Young and Old Alike.”, p.94, Macmillan

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• One should never mistake pattern for meaning.

  Iain Banks

  Mistake, Patterns

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• Beware the engineers of society, I say, who would make everyone in all the world equal. Opportunitty should be equal, must be equal, but achievement must remain individual. - Drizzt Do'Urden

  R. A. Salvatore

  Achievement, World, Individual

  R.A. Salvatore (2009). “Streams of Silver: The Legend of Drizzt”, p.223, Wizards of the Coast

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• I am Envy, begotten of a chimney-sweeper and an oyster-wife. I cannot read, and therefore wish all books were burnt; I am lean with seeing others eat - O that there would come a famine through all the world, that all might die, and I live alone; then thou should'st see how fat I would be! But must thou sit and I stand? Come down, with a vengeance!

  Christopher Marlowe

  Book, Oysters, Envy

  Christopher Marlowe, David Wootton (2005). “Doctor Faustus: With The English Faust Book”, p.36, Hackett Publishing

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• Ecstasy is a complex emotion containing elements of joy, fear, terror, triumph, surrender, and empathy. What has replaced our prehistoric understanding of this complex of ecstasy now is the word comfort, a tremendously bloodless notion. Drugs are not comfortable, and anyone who thinks they are comfortable or even escapist should not toy with drugs unless they’re willing to get their noses rubbed in their own stuff.

  Terence McKenna

  Thinking, Empathy, Joy

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• One should never regret one's excesses, only one's failures of nerve.

  Iain Banks

  Regret, Nerves, Excess

  Iain M. Banks (2012). “The Hydrogen Sonata: A Culture Novel”, p.230, Hachette UK

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• You should know it yourself- a young man is still a boy, and a boy sometimes has the right to be stubborn.

  Markus Zusak

  Boys, Men, Stubborn

  Markus Zusak (2013). “The Book Thief: Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition”, p.216, RH Childrens Books

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• Remembering bred its own peculiar sorrow. It seemed so unfair: that time should render both sadness and happiness into a source of pain.

  Rohinton Mistry

  Pain, Sadness, Sorrow

  Rohinton Mistry (2008). “A Fine Balance”, p.337, Faber & Faber

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• Science doesn't tell us what we should do. It only tells us what is.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Barbara Kingsolver (2012). “Flight Behaviour”, p.258, Faber & Faber

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• I'm working on my own life story. I don't mean I'm putting it together; no, I'm taking it apart. If you'd wanted the narrative line you should have asked earlier, when I still knew everything and was more than willing to tell. That was before I discovered the virtues of scissors, the virtues of matches.

  Margaret Atwood

  Mean, Should Have, Together

  "The Tent". Book by Margaret Atwood, 2006.

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• It’s never simple.” Avery slid an arm around Hope’s waist. “It shouldn’t be. Because being with someone should matter enough to be at least a little bit complicated.

  Nora Roberts

  Simple, Arms, Littles

  Nora Roberts (2012). “The Perfect Hope: Number 3 in series”, p.102, Hachette UK

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• I know now that when the loving, honest moment comes it should be seized, and spoken, because it may never come again. And unvoiced, unmoving, unlived in the things we declare form heart to heart, those true and real feelings wither and crumble in the remembering hand that tries too late to reach for them.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Real, Heart, Hands

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.773, St. Martin's Press

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• Mister Dresden is a diplomatically challenged individual. He should be in a shelter for the tactless.

  Jim Butcher

  Shelter, Individual, Dresden

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 1-6”, p.1869, Penguin

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• She would say, "Someone should invent something to do with things you cannot use anymore but that you still cannot throw out.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Use, Stills

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez (2014). “Love in the Time of Cholera”, p.300, Penguin UK

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• In your big mind, everything has the same value...In your practice you should accept everything as it is, giving to each thing the same respect given to a Buddha. Here there is Buddhahood

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Practice, Giving, Mind

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• Ergo: girls should always make the first move, because (a) they are, on the whole, less likely to be rejected than guys, (b) that way, girls will never get kissed unless they want to be kissed.

  John Green

  Girl, Moving, Guy

  John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.75, Penguin

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