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The ugliest truth, in the end, was still better than the prettiest of lies. — Harlan Coben

I have decided that we shall make and build and never give way. — Lee Kuan Yew

The American Constitution is remarkable for its simplicity; but it can only suffice a people habitually correct in their actions, and would be utterly inadequate to the wants of a different nation. Change the domestic habits of the Americans, their religious devotion, and their high respect for morality, and it will not be necessary to change a single letter in the Constitution in order to vary the whole form of their government. — Francis Grund

We shall change all that ... because it is possible to change the world, if one is determined enough, and if one sees with sufficient clarity just what has to be changed. — Alexander McCall Smith

Whoever will imagine a perpetual confession of ignorance, a judgment without leaning or inclination, on any occasion whatever, hasa conception of Pyrrhonism. — Michel De Montaigne

At times it seems to me that the distance between my writing and her reading is unbridgeable, that whatever I write bears the stamp of artifice and incongruity; if what I am writing were to appear on the polished surface of the page she is reading, it would rasp like a fingernail on a pane, and she would fling the book away with horror. — Italo Calvino

The man who masters himself is delivered from the force that binds all creatures. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

I don't give a damn what you do with your money. Just sign here that you received it and you can get drunk in peace. — Stieg Larsson