“But there is good and reason in us, in human beings, with whom fortune plays, and we can be stronger than nature and fate, if only for a few hours. And we can draw close to one another in times of need, understand and love one another, and live to comfort each other. And sometimes, when the black depths are silent, we can do even more. We can then be gods for moments, stretch out a commanding hand and create things which were not there before and which, when they are created, continue to live without us.”

Hermann Hesse
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“Property, possessions and riches had also finally trapped him. They were no longer a game and a toy. They had become a chain and a burden.”

Hermann Hesse
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“The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.”

Hermann Hesse
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“Wisdom is not communicable. The wisdom which a wise man tries to communicate always sounds foolish… Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom.”

Hermann Hesse
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“We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.”

Winston Churchill
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“I wanted only to live in accord with the promptings which came from my true self. Why was that so very difficult?”

Hermann Hesse
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“If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us.”

Hermann Hesse
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“Democracy is the worst form of Government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.”

Winston Churchill
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“Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.”

Winston Churchill
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“In war: resolution. In defeat: defiance. In victory: magnanimity. In peace: goodwill.”

Winston Churchill
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