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“and when all the wars are over, a butterfly will still be beautiful.”
― Ruskin Bond, Scenes from a Writer's Life

“Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

“If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.”
― Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince

“There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.”
― Bertrand Russell

“Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.”
― Voltaire

“Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.”
― Voltaire

“The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.”
― Voltaire

“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
― Søren Kierkegaard

“I must say a word about fear. It is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life. It is a clever, treacherous adversary, how well I know. It has no decency, respects no law or convention, shows no mercy. It goes for your weakest spot, which it finds with unnerving ease. It begins in your mind, always ... so you must fight hard to express it. You must fight hard to shine the light of words upon it. Because if you don't, if your fear becomes a wordless darkness that you avoid, perhaps even manage to forget, you open yourself to further attacks of fear because you never truly fought the opponent who defeated you.”
― Yann Martel, Life of Pi

“No woman really wants a man to carry her off; she only wants him to want to do it.”
― Elizabeth Peters

“A horse that can count to ten is a remarkable horse—not a remarkable mathematician.”
― Warren Buffett, The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate America

“calling someone who trades actively in the market an investor “is like calling someone who repeatedly engages in one-night stands a romantic.”
― Warren Buffett, The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate America

“Having firstrate people on the team is more important than designing hierarchies and clarifying who reports to whom”
― Warren Buffett, The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate America