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  1. Zadie Smith _ On Beauty

    {'L}ook, of course I know you and your family have "beliefs",' began Howard uneasily, as if 'beliefs' were a kind of condition, like oral herpes.
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  2. E.M. Forster _ Maurice

    Belief's always right.. It's all right and it's also unmistakable. Every man has somewhere about him some belief for which he'd die. Only isn't it improbable that your parents and guardians told it to you? If there is one won't it be part of your own flesh and spirit?
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  3. E M Forster _ Where Angels Fear to Tread

    Society is invincible-to a certain degree. But your real life is your own, and nothing can touch it. There is no power on earth that can prevent your criticizing and despising mediocrity-nothing that can stop you retreating into splendour and beauty-into the thoughts and beliefs that make the real life-the real you.
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  4. Neil Gaiman _ The Wake

    It's astonishing how much trouble one can get oneself into, if one works at it. And astonishing how much trouble one can get oneself out of, if one simply assumes that everything will, somehow or other, work out for the best." -Destruction
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  5. Paul Murray _ The Mark and the Void

    It used to be the smartest people didn't always want to be the richest people.
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  6. Charles Dickens _ Hard Times

    It is known, to the force of a single pound weight, what the engine will do; but, not all the calculators of the National Debt can tell me the capacity for good or evil, for love or hatred, for patriotism or discontent, for the decomposition of virtue into vice, or the reverse.
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  7. Louisa May Alcott _ Little Women

    Then it was that Jo, living in the darkened room, with that suffering little sister always before her eyes and that pathetic voice sounding in her ears, learned to see the beauty and the sweetness of Beth's nature, to feel how deep and tender a place she filled in all hearts, and to acknowledge the worth of Beth's unselfish ambition to live for others, and make home happy by that exercise of those simple virtues which all may possess, and which all should love and value more than talent, wealth, or beauty.
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  8. Louisa May Alcott _ Little Women

    If you feel your value lies in being merely decorative, I fear that someday you might find yourself believing that's all that you really are. Time erodes all such beauty, but what it cannot diminish is the wonderful workings of your mind: Your humor, your kindness, and your moral courage. These are the things I cherish so in you. I so wish I could give my girls a more just world. But I know you'll make it a better place. - Marmee
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  9. Jared Diamond _ Collapse: How Societies Choose

    Above all, it seems to me wrongheaded and dangerous to invoke historical assumptions about environmental practices of native peoples in order to justify treating them fairly. ... By invoking this assumption {i.e., that they were/are better environmental stewards than other peoples or parts of contemporary society} to justify fair treatment of native peoples, we imply that it would be OK to mistreat them if that assumption could be refuted. In fact, the case against mistreating them isn't based on any historical assumption about their environmental practices: it's based on a moral principle, namely, that it is morally wrong for one people to dispossess, subjugate or exterminate another people.
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  10. Jared Diamond _ Collapse: How Societies Choose

    Two types of choices seem to me to have been crucial in tipping the outcomes {of the various societies' histories} towards success or failure: long-term planning and willingness to reconsider core values. On reflection we can also recognize the crucial role of these same two choices for the outcomes of our individual lives.
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  11. Jared Diamond _ Collapse: How Societies Choose

    {T}he values to which people cling most stubbornly under inappropriate conditions are those values that were previously the source of their greatest triumphs.
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  12. Ayn Rand _ Atlas Shrugged

    Are you seeking to know what is wrong with the world? All the disasters that have wrecked your world, came from your leaders' attempt to evade the fact that A is A. All the secret evil you dread to face within you and all the pain you have ever endured, came from your own attempt to evade the fact that A is A.
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