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“True stories seldom have endings. I don't want a happy ending, I want more story.”

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Frances Hardinge is a British author born in 1973. She is known for her works in fantasy literature, which have gained widespread popularity among readers. more

“Every nation that has ended in tyranny has come to that end by way of good order. It certainly does not follow from this that peoples should scorn public peace, but neither should they be satisfied with that and nothing more. A nation that asks nothing of government but the maintenance of order is already a slave in the depths of its heart; it is a slave of its well-being, ready for the man who will put it in chains.”

Men Way Should Wells Heart Doe Ends Government Order Asks Nations Ready Slave Depth Tyranny Satisfied Chains Well Being Scorn Maintenance

Author:Alexis de Tocqueville

“It's inevitable that if you do okay on something like that you don't just annoy people, that it will make a difference because it seemed like such a lot of people so, yes I would have to say that it has done.”

People Ifs Done Differences Okay Inevitable Making A Difference Annoying Annoyed

Author:Jo Brand

“It is indeed difficult to imagine how men who have entirely renounced the habit of managing their own affairs could be successful in choosing those who ought to lead them. It is impossible to believe that a liberal, energetic, and wise government can ever emerge from the ballots of a nation of servants.”

Men Believe Government Nations Difficult Successful Wise Imagine Impossible Ought Habit Affair Servant Being Successful Energetic Ballots

Author:Alexis de Tocqueville

“It is above all in the present democratic age that the true friends of liberty and human grandeur must remain constantly vigilant and ready to prevent the social power from lightly sacrificing the particular rights of a few individuals to the general execution of its designs. In such times there is no citizen so obscure that it is not very dangerous to allow him to be oppressed, and there are no individual rights so unimportant that they can be sacrificed to arbitrariness with impunity.”

“To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering one must not love. But then one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love is to suffer; not to love is to suffer; to suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love. To be happy, then, is to suffer, but suffering makes one unhappy. Therefore, to be happy one must love or love to suffer or suffer from too much happiness.”

Love Life Believe Humor Funny Suffering Love Is Comedy Too Much Unhappy I Love You Funny Love Movie Love Love And Death Love Death Happiness Love Misery And Suffering

Author:Woody Allen

“What good does it do me, after all, if an ever-watchful authority keeps an eye out to ensure that my pleasures will be tranquil and races ahead of me to ward off all danger, sparing me the need even to think about such things, if that authority, even as it removes the smallest thorns from my path, is also absolute master of my liberty and my life; if it monopolizes vitality and existence to such a degree that when it languishes, everything around it must also languish; when it sleeps, everything must also sleep; and when it dies, everything must also perish?”

Ifs Thinking Needs Doe Eye Dies Sleep Pleasure Race Existence Liberty Path Danger Masters Degrees Authority Absolutes Remove Smallest Vitality Thorns Tranquil Languish

Author:Alexis de Tocqueville

“If you compare yourself to others, you may become vain and bitter; for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.”

Ifs May Persons Greater Bitter Vain Compare Comparing Yourself To Others

Author:Max Ehrmann

“To look in the mirror and like what you see, even when it doesn't look like your idea of beauty.”

Looks Ideas Mirrors

Author:Sharon G. Flake

“Don't go getting full of yourself becuase once you do, somebody's going to come and let the wind out of your sails”

Wind Sail Full Of Yourself

Author:Sharon G. Flake

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