"Nature herself in times of great poverty or bad climatic conditions, as well as poor harvest, intervenes to restrict the increase of population of certain countries or races; this, to be sure, by a method as wise as it is ruthless."

-- Thomas Malthus

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“I've got no respect for any young man who won't join the colors.”
“How can so much beauty hide such a bruised and steely heart, and why must I love him, why must I lean in my weariness upon his irresistible yet indomitable strength? Is he not the wizend funeral spirit of a dead man in a child's clothes?”
“Widge can see the past." Poppet says suddenly. "That's why his stories are so good." "The past is easier," Widget says. "It's already there." "In the stars?" Bailey asks. "No." Widget says. "On people. The past stays on you the way powdered sugar stays on fingers. Some people can get rid of it but it's still there, the events and t hings that pushed you to where you are now.”

Source : Erin Morgenstern (2016). “The Night Circus”, p.203, Random House
“He told me that once, in the war, heâ€™d come upon a German soldier in the grass with his insides falling out; he was just lying there in agony. The soldier had looked up at Sergeant Leonard, and even though they didnâ€™t speak the same language, they understood each other with just a look. The German lying on the ground; the American standing over him. He put a bullet in the soldierâ€™s head. He didnâ€™t do it with anger, as an enemy, but as a fellow man, one soldier helping another.”
“The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.”

Source : Eliza Wood Farnham (1864). “Woman and Her Era”, p.9
“Don't write what you know. Write what you love. That's what will keep you writing.”
“That's what they do to whatever I was - 19 or something. You're the baby hooker. You can ask any woman my age and we've all played baby hookers.”
“A definition is the enclosing a wilderness of idea within a wall of words.”

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