"Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books."

-- Bell Hooks

#Book Quotes #Reading Quotes #Ideas Quotes

“Don't take too long, Mrs. Cullen”
“A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements.”
“Strict justice would demand total confiscation of your property, personal imprisonment and fines.”

Source : Zebulon Montgomery Pike, Thomas Rees (1811). “Exploratory Travels Through the Western Territories of North America: Comprising a Voyage from St. Louis, on the Mississippi, to the Source of that River, and a Journey Through the Interior of Louisiana, and the North-eastern Provinces of New Spain ; Performed in the Years 1805, 1806, 1807, by Order of the Government of the United States”, p.145
“It takes suffering to widen the soul.”
“Marriage is what happens when one at least of the partners doesn't want the other to get away.”
“We are asleep until we fall in Love!”
“If you are an ignorant man, you are acting wisely; but if you have had any education, you are behaving like a fool.”

Source : "The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers". Book by Diogenes Laërtius, transl. by C. D. Yonge, London: H. G. Bohn, p. 196, 1853.
“When the history of the 20th century is finally written, one of its key features will be the wanton slaughter of more than 170 million people, not in war, but by their own government. The governments that led in this slaughter are the former USSR (65 million) and the Peoples Republic of China (35-40 million). The point to remember is that these governments were the idols of America's leftists. Part of the reason for these and other tyrannical successes was because the people were first disarmed.”

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